Thank You, Garden
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the author of the Caldecott Honor–winning picture book All the World comes an exuberant, lyrical celebration of the plants—and people—that grow and thrive in a busy community garden.
A community garden unites children and neighbors in this celebration of all the things that grow there, from flowers and fruits to friendships. In the spirit of her Caldecott Honor–winning picture book All the World, this ode to friendship, community, and working together for a better world will have young readers gathering their friends young and old to plant something together.
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An array of people of varied skin tones and ages work and play among an urban garden's raised beds, accompanied by fragmentary rhyming text, in this pleasant book: "Garden ready/ garden new// garden so much/ work to do!" Smiling, triangle-nosed children with dot eyes admire critters, play with hoses, and watch sunsets, grounding the metaphor in Scanlon's loveliest line: "Garden growing like a child,/ rosy,/ leggy,/ fresh, and wild." The book ends with an image of people gathered around a table joyfully eating salad, but the reading experience is less nourishing, with choices that sometimes skew toward the convenient: "Garden rock/ and garden water/ Garden son/ and garden daughter." Shin's illustrations, created with acrylic, watercolor, and photo editing software, use bright color and chunky crisp shapes to create charming garden scenes. Ages 3 7.
