The gardener / Sarah Stewart ; pictures by David Small.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374325176
- 0374325170
- Gardening -- Juvenile fiction
- Uncles -- Juvenile fiction
- Letters -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Generosity -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Bakers -- Juvenile fiction
- Bakeries -- Juvenile fiction
- Postal service -- Juvenile fiction
- Unemployment -- Juvenile fiction
- City and town life -- Juvenile fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Natural World | Stewart Sarah | Available | 33111009351780 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Natural World | Stewart, Sarah | Available | 33111003933187 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library.
Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting.
Originally published: 1997.
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.