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Overview

One day, a curious boy named Liam is out exploring his drab, gray city when he comes across a struggling garden. He decides to help the plants grow, never imagining what he is starting. As time passes, the garden takes on a life of its own and spreads across the city, changing everything in its path. Bib by bit, the city is transformed, becoming a lush green world.

The Curious Garden is s magical story about a boy's dream and how the efforts of one small person can help change the world.

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Overview

One day, a curious boy named Liam is out exploring his drab, gray city when he comes across a struggling garden. He decides to help the plants grow, never imagining what he is starting. As time passes, the garden takes on a life of its own and spreads across the city, changing everything in its path. Bib by bit, the city is transformed, becoming a lush green world.

The Curious Garden is s magical story about a boy's dream and how the efforts of one small person can help change the world.

Editorial Reviews

Sherie Posesorski
…a quietly marvellous picture book…As all good, enduring stories are, The Curious Garden is a rich palimpsest. Echoing the themes of The Secret Garden, it is an ecological fable, a whimsical tale celebrating perseverance and creativity, and a rousing paean, encouraging every small person and every big person that they too can nurture their patch of earth into their very own vision of Eden.
—The New York Times
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Brown's (Chowder) latest is a quiet but stirring fable of urban renewal, sure to capture imaginations. In exploring his bleak city neighborhood, thoughtful Liam-in Brown's warm, almost fuzzy acrylic spreads, he looks a little like a friendly, redheaded wooden puppet-notices that some flowering plants have appeared on an old elevated railway track. He teaches himself to care for them ("The flowers nearly drowned and he had a few pruning problems, but the plants patiently waited while Liam found better ways of gardening"), and the garden responds by "growing restless. It wanted to explore." In one of several wordless spreads, Liam stands against a bright blue sky, surrounded by a thick patch of daisies. Spring brings a burst of new energy: "the tough little weeds and mosses set out first. They popped up farther and farther from the railway.... but the most surprising things that popped up were the new gardeners." In Brown's utopian vision, the urban and the pastoral mingle to joyfully harmonious effect-especially on the final pages, which show a city filled with rooftop gardens, fantastic topiaries, windmills and sparkling ponds. Ages 3-6. (Apr.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316015479
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 4/1/2009
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 30,526
  • Age range: 3 - 5 Years
  • Lexile: AD840L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 8.90 (w) x 11.25 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Brown
Peter Brown

Peter Brown is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. His Web site is somebrownstuff.com.

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  • Posted October 19, 2009

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    Marvelous

    A wonderful, uplifting, and hopeful fable about perseverance and the difference one person (and one garden) can make in the world. Beautiful artwork and simple, lyrical prose. I especially like how the character of the garden itself is brought out in the story. Highly recommended.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 6, 2010

    loved it

    my boys loved this!

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  • Posted May 2, 2009

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    Completely Inspiring for Children of All Ages!

    Bravo Peter Brown! This book inspires children of all ages to open their eyes & hearts to the natural beauty growing in the most unexpected of places! The illustrations capture the imagination and inject humor into a very important message of loving & nuturing our Mother Earth! Makes a fantastic birthday or holiday present...pair it with a little spade, watering can & a few seed packets!
    PS-And it's printed on beautiful recycled paper!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 3, 2010

    sweet and engaging book

    i just bought this for my almost 2 year old and he loves it and so do i. hugely recommend it!

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  • Posted May 16, 2010

    Makes you want to know what kind of a "curious garden"?

    Help children and adults alike to learn to make where they live a more beautiful place to live. Teach children how to plant and grow a garden and that it can be fun and rewarding.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2010

    lovely

    This is a lovely book to introduce your child to gardening and the concept of community. The illustrations are delightful. It inspired us to search our neighborhood for "curious gardens".

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2010

    What a precious story with a great moral

    I bought this book as a gift for two of my grand children (7yrs. and 2 yrs) The oldest loved the story and could read it out loud with little difficulty. Since she is very much into being "GREEN", and caring for our Mother Earth, she found it inspirational.

    The youngest one loved the pictures and enjoyed the story as well when read to her. It is now part of the night time ritual of bedtime. They have only had the book a few weeks, but both know it by heart

    This book has actually brought out their creativity in gardening as well. Its a sweet precious story and we truly are enjoying over and over and over again

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  • Posted March 20, 2010

    Message of Renewal

    This is a great book for making earthday everyday. Wonderful story about an accidental ecologist.... who is a child.

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