Grandpa Green

Lane Smith Does It Again!

This is a charming tale about a grandfather who is very special in the eyes of his grandson. He has lived through a great deal of history, and now is quite a unique landscape gardener. Parents as well as children will delight in Lane Smith's beautiful drawings! Enjoy!!

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SPOILER ALERT Grandpa Green by Lane Smith, is about a gra

SPOILER ALERT

Grandpa Green by Lane Smith, is about a grandpa who created a garden of his life. When a boy, the great grandchild of Grandpa Green, walks through the garden. He sees all of the events that happened in his great grandpa’s life. The grandpa, the main character of the story, loves to garden, as you can see in the book. He seems as if he also ia a little clumsy, because he leaves some of his things on ground. The boy is walking through his grandpa’s garden and looking at all of the shrubs. The topiary creates shapes of animals, trees, and people. Could the kid be looking at his future? This book is a picture book and is easy to read, but to really understand the book you need to be older. The book is for third graders and older, a younger kid would have troubles decoding it. For example the book is very deep, a young child would not be able to understand the deepness.

The conflict of this book is that the grandpa is very forgetful. He leaves many of his gardening tools around the great garden. I know this because in the book it says “he used to remember everything.” This tells us two very important facts about this character. One is that he is really getting very old. Two is that he must have made the garden to remember everything. I can tell that the boy who is walking the garden must be the person who is telling the story. I can see that from when it states“They had kids, way more grandkids and a great-grandkid like me.” The word me shows that he is the narrator. This also makes it obvious that the boy is the narrator.

The garden is very beautiful and also clever. There are so many details in the paintings. The colors that the illustrator uses are green, yellow, brown, black, red, pink, and blue. All of the different colors are hidden in the book, but if you are looking for them, they are easy to spot out. I saw myself looking at the background that explains the grandpa’s life more than at the boy. For instance, on the page where the grandpa got chicken pox, I caught myself looking at the background and not the boy that much. I looked at the background because This told me even more that the grandpa is the main character. The characters in the book are painted with ink and a brush. The garden was made with oil and digital paint. The trees are lined with pen so that it looks realistic. It seems like there are different kinds of brush and trees. There is also texture in the trees that is different. This shows that the illustrator took a lot of time on the paintings.

Grandpa Green is a great book. This book is very easy to read but is very deep. Grandpa- -Green got me wondering. This book could be about many things. It could be about the grandpa and how he lost his memory. But this seems like it is only scratching the surface. It could be about how the great, great grandson is looking at his future. It could be this because he is picking up the grandpa’s things as he leaves them behind. Maybe he is fllfollown his footsteps. I wonder why there are so many details in the drawings. Do they mean something too? I really enjoyed this book about a garden of life.

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My three year old and I love this book. Lane's simple but beaut

My three year old and I love this book. Lane's simple but beautiful story is filled with amazing illustrations of topiaries that depict the story of a Grandfather's life. You won't be disappointed!

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Great book to share with kids!

Great book to share with kids!

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