Title: Wanda's Roses
First published: 1994
Description: When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in an empty lot, she's quite sure it's a rosebush ready to bloom. So she clears away the trash, checks on it every day, and brings water from the butcher shop across the street. But no roses appear. Wanda's neighbors and friends are all doubtful, but when she invites them to a tea party in her "rose garden" one day in June, they're in for a big surprise. Pat Brisson's warm-hearted story and Maryann Cocca-Leffler's vibrant illustrations make this book about a child's simple faith one that children will long remember.
Subjects: Fiction, Community gardens, Roses, Gardens, City and town life, Inner cities, Neighborhoods, Roses in literature, Community life, Perseverance (Ethics), Juvenile literature, Children's fiction, Roses, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.B78046 Wan 1994