Full name: A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope

Author: Michael Foreman Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780763642716 9781406325881 0763642711 1406325880

For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection. A little boy's home has been reduced to ruin and rubble, and now a wire fence and soldiers separate him from the streams and hills he once visited with his father. But the boy sees a tiny speck of green peeping up toward the sunlight, and he quietly begins to coax it with water and care. What sort of promise can a vine's spreading tendrils bring to a bleak landscape? A beautifully illustrated tale of healing and renewal from a world-acclaimed children's book creator, A Child's Garden pays gentle tribute to the human spirit. Similar books: Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish by Michael Foreman War and Peas by Michael Foreman The Little Reindeer by Michael Foreman Silent Music by James Rumford War Boy: A Country Childhood by Michael Foreman Sami and the Time of the Troubles by Florence Parry Heide Fortunately, Unfortunately by Michael Foreman Marwan's Journey by Patricia de Arias The Wall by Eve Bunting Stepping Stones by Margriet Ruurs The Day War Came by Nicola Davies Erika's Story by Ruth Vander Zee Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt The Yellow Star by Carmen Agra Deedy Shooting at the Stars by John Hendrix So Far from the Sea by Eve Bunting