Wanda's Roses (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Brisson, Pat

ISBN 10: 0613301811 ISBN 13: 9780613301817

Publisher: Turtleback, 2000

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Wanda cleans up an empty lot so the rosebush she found there can bloom, despite the doubts of her neighbors.

About this title

About the Author

Pat Brisson is the author of the Christopher Award-winning The Summer My Father Was Ten. She lives in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

Maryann Cocca-Leffler is the illustrator and author of Bus Route to Boston and Clams All Year. She lives ini Amherst, New Hampshire.

From Publishers Weekly

Brisson ( Your Best Friend, Kate ) creates a lovable new character whose unwavering optimism transforms a rubbish-ridden vacant lot into a rose garden. Convinced that a bare thornbush is really a rosebush about to bloom, Wanda exuberantly cleans up the lot so that the bush will get more sun and air. "You'll see," she says, "in a few weeks that whole lot will be full of roses." Wanda's neighbors are skeptical: "If that's a rosebush, then I'm the queen of England," one thinks to herself; "If that's a rosebush, then I'm the king of France," the next muses privately. Still, charmed by the girl's enthusiasm, they all help her. After a month without blooms but with much camaraderie, Wanda's neighbors contribute rosebushes, and "the whole lot was filled with the biggest, most beautiful, sweetest-smelling roses that anyone had ever seen--just as Wanda had always said it would be." Cheery watercolors complement this upbeat urban tale, genially depicting the city's great variety, from a chubby butcher to a kindly old woman with nylon knee highs rolled down around her ankles. Ages 4-8.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Turtleback
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0613301811
• ISBN 13: 9780613301817
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Illustrator: Cocca-leffler Maryann
• Number of pages: 32