About this item
From the bestselling illustrator of Strictly No Elephants comes a sweetly personal and stunningly illustrated picture book about a young girl who grows closer to her grandfather by tending to the garden with him.. When I am as small as a sprout, Grandfather's garden feels big. A young girl observes the bugs and blooms and the rich smell of the soil of her grandfather's garden. Her grandfather hums as he waters his treasured plants. And when he gives the girl a flower of her own, caring for it teaches her to feel her grandfather's love. Even as time passes and her grandfather's garden grows smaller and the girl grows up, she never forgets what she learned or loses her closeness with her nurturing grandfather. When my daughter is as small as a sprout, we visit Grandfather together.
About the Author
Taeeun Yoo is New York based author and illustrator for children's book.Her first picture book, The Little Red Fish, (Dial Books / Penguin, 2007) , was awarded the Society of Illustrators' 2007 Founders Award. She's also illustrated the reissue of Madeleine L'Engle's renowned series, The Time Quintet and The Austin Chronicles (Square Fish / Macmillan, 2007, 2008) , The Umbrella Queen by Shirin Yim Bridges (Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2008) , Only a Witch Can Fly by Alison McGhee (Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan, 2009) and So Many Days, also by Alison McGhee (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster, 2010) Taeeun lives in Brooklyn and enjoys walking on the streets, listening to street musicians, and drawing on location.Please visit website and blog to find more about her.www.taeeunyoo.comwww.taeeunyoo.blogspot.comhttp://www.etsy.com/shop/yoote
