Inspired by hearing that a garden used to grow in the yard in front of his house, a boy recreates it with loving care. Full-color illustrations.
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Inspired by hearing that a garden used to grow in the yard in front of his house, a boy recreates it with loving care. Full-color illustrations.
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Fair in fair dust jacket. 2000. Frances Foster Books. Ex-Library Hardcover with usual markings, stamps, and stickers. Dust Jacket has a clear, plastic covering over it. Pages are in good condition. -Disclaimer: May have a different cover image than stock photos shows, as well as being a different edition/printing, unless otherwise stated. Please contact us if you're looking for one of these specifically. Your order will ship with FREE Delivery Confirmation (Tracking). We are a family business, and your satisfaction.
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Used-G. Inspired by hearing that a garden used to grow in the yard in front of his house, a boy recreates it with loving care. Full-color illustrations. This book is well-loved and in good condition. Minor wear from use. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore!
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 4to-over 9.75"-12" tall; Glossy 1st edition hardcover is square and straight. Gift ded on illustrated fep, rest of 34 p text flawless. Unclipped dj in new mylar looks terrific. Inspired by hearing that a garden used to grow in the yard in front of his house, a boy recreates it with loving care.
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Tomek Bogacki color illustrations. New in New jacket. Book CONDITION: NEW 2000 Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus hardcover (dark blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, second printing). Decorated end pages. Beautiful color illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: The power of memory, not a child's garden, is chiefly the subject of this apparently autobiographical book, narrated by an adult and reflective of an adult sensibility. At the beginning, a man aboard a train sees a town that takes him back to his European childhood--a safe but insular world of red-roofed houses. He recalls how being old enough to ride a bike meant pushing back the boundaries of his circumscribed existence: "The town seemed to get smaller and smaller the further I went." His bicycle trip one day leads him to a garden presided over by a philosophical gardener, and he is inspired to grow his own "magical place" back home. The story comes full circle to the present: the narrator's train arrives at the station, and there waits his son with his bike, ready to talk about his own first garden. The choice of garden as focal point seems arbitrary--the text has the amorphous quality of a reminiscence. The structure is like an album, with large illustrations alternating with beguiling, evocatively captioned vignettes; the vignettes appear to emanate from the main composition, like details emphasized in a memoir. In these ways the book approximates the fragmented recollections of childhood. Similarly, the impressionistic pastels look as if they are in the midst of materializing from out of the past. Ages 6+. This is a book for the discerning child whose imagination can take flight-IMHO. Adults will like it, tho.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. New., Hardcover, Large octavo, Unused, in dust jacket. Bright, clean, tight. Color illustrations. Packed and shipped with care.
