The Invisible Garden
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
With very little text, this book lets the illustrations tell the charming story of a child carried away into a world much bigger than herself.
A young girl and her family travel from the city to the country to celebrate her grandmother's birthday. Someone suggests that Arianne, as the only child at the party, might enjoy exploring the garden more than listening to the adults chat. Arianne is unsure what to do in the quiet garden, and she soon lies down out of boredom. But then she spots a pebble...and a grasshopper...and flies away on a dandelion seed pod into the cosmos as she discovers the freedom of her imagination.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a quiet story with few words, Arianne, a child with brown hair and an A-line dress, travels in a car to her grandmother's red house. While adult party-goers schmooze, Arianne ventures into the garden and eyes a stone among the greenery. The journey takes a fantastical turn when the girl shrinks and, la Thumbelina, races alongside insects while clinging to a flying dandelion puff. After tossing a stone into a lily pond, she jumps in herself and swims among corals and sea creatures, one of which develops into a dinosaur that takes to the skies. Ferrer, a graphic designer, illustrates with pronounced white space; shades of mossy green, gray, and plum; and attention to local and cosmic relative scale. Picard captures the magic of a solitary hour spent observing nature and suggests where those observations might lead. Ages 3 5.
