num_pages: 32
description: A Caldecott Honor BookFrom the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a Caldecott Honor-winning timeless story of family history legacy and love.Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and most of all an artist. In this captivating new picture book readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date Lane Smith explores aging memory and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.This title has Common Core connections.Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011. One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.
language: English
title: Grandpa Green
publisher: Roaring Brook Press