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Synopsis
For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.
A little boy’s home has been reduced to ruin and rubble, and now a wire fence and soldiers separate him from the streams and hills he once visited with his father. But the boy sees a tiny speck of green peeping up toward the sunlight, and he quietly begins to coax it with water and care. What sort of promise can a vine’s spreading tendrils bring to a bleak landscape? A beautifully illustrated tale of healing and renewal from a world-acclaimed children’s book creator, A Child’s Garden pays gentle tribute to the human spirit.
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About the Author
Michael Foreman is the author-illustrator of MIA'S STORY and many other children’s books, and he is the cocreator, with Jack Foreman, of SAY HELLO. His work has been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Kurt Maschler Award, and the Bologna Graphics Prize. He lives in London.
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In the ravaged rubble where he lives behind a heavily guarded barbed-wire fence, a boy finds a tiny green sprout. Nurturing the vine, he watches it grow into a vibrant oasis, until it is destroyed by soldiers from the other side. Then, in spring, green shoots reappear. Together, the boy and a girl on the other side of the fence cultivate the vines and create a glorious, shared garden. The overt symbolism carries through to the boy’s closing thoughts: “Let the soldiers return . . . Roots are deep, and seeds spread . . . One day the fence will disappear forever.” Foreman’s expertly shaded pencil-and-watercolor illustrations deepen the story’s heavy messages of war and peace, moving from grim, gray-toned scenes to a vibrantly colored, idealistic spread depicting a long trail of happy kids winding into flower-strewn hills. Children will likely need to discuss the disturbing images of wire, ruins, and armed men, but they’ll connect with the young characters’ powerful ability to transform their wasted landscape and envision a joyful, harmonious world. Grades K-3. --Gillian Engberg
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