The Trellis and the Seed: A Book of Encouragement for All Ages - Hardcover

Karon, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670892890 ISBN 13: 9780670892891

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 2003

Synopsis

When the little seed becomes discouraged with its size and appearance, Earth provides it with some encouraging words and tells it that it will blossom into something spectacular with a little time and patience, in an inspiring tale from the author of the Mitford Years series.

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Review:

Subtitled a "Story of Encouragement for All Ages," the Trellis and the Seed tells the story of how "God has planned something beautiful" for even the tiniest, most unassuming little seed.

The tiny seed begins its mysterious journey in the hands of the seemingly omnipotent "Nice Lady," who predicts--much to the seed's disbelief--that it will make a "beautiful vine with sweet-smelling blossoms." Even as the Nice Lady plants the seed, erects an ambitious trellis, waits for rain, adds fertilizer, and performs all her other nurserial oblations, the seed continues to be baffled by its caretaker's faith. ("It was only a seed, and very, very small. How could it ever be a beautiful vine with blossoms?") How indeed? Suffice it to say, God doesn't send a crafty bird to eat the seed in a harrowing third-act changeup.

Jan Karon's story of patience and faith shows the same folksy charm that infuses her Mitford Years series, and her gentle words find a soothing complement in the skilled, muted watercolors of Robert Gantt Steele (of the Her Story series). (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes

About the Author:

Jan Karon writes "to give readers an extended family and to applaud the extraordinary beauty of ordinary lives."

Robert Gantt Steele lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670892890
• ISBN 13: 9780670892891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Steele Robert Gantt