The Curious Garden
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316053297 (0316053295)
Publish date: April 1st 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
For a book with a message, I should be at a 2 or 3. But the illustrations evoked an immediate response in me that made me read and reread the book a few times. Maybe it reminded me of when I was a kid and grandma let us draw on the big formica table in the kitchen. We would design complicated citysc...
A beautiful book both inside and out! The illustrations are delightful and so is the story. A particularly nice pick for urban kids!
My kids (and I) loved this book about a little boy who finds a spark of life amidst urban decay, tends it, and leads to a garden taking over the city (in a good way). Beautiful artwork, too.