- New York Times bestseller, Fiction, Gardens, Great-grandfathers
He was a boy on a farm and a kid with chickenpox. He was a soldier and a husband and a gardener, and most of all, an artist. Follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson through a garden where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.
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Contemplative, character-led, intimate and nostalgic.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Lane Smith
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Gallimard Jeunesse
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, Chinese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780230766457
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Lane Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Corona, California. He spent summers in Tulsa. He attended the Art Center at the College of Design in Pasadena, California while also working as a janitor. He received a B.F.A. degree in illustration, moved to New York City, and began working as a magazine illustrator. In 1991, he collaborated with poet Eve Merriam on his first book, Halloween ABC. He is best know for his collaborations with author Jon Scieszka, including illustrations for several of Scieszka's Time Warp Trio series.
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