![]() Great pictures, with easy to read text, good for lower KS1.moreĪ Child’s Garden is a story of hope in the face of adversity. It is a great story of hope and perserverance, and children will really be able to feel that as they read through it. The illustrations are lovely- they start of just in grey scale and then as the shoot grows more colour is introduced until the whole page is full of colour and life. However, soon there are more shoots and the same thing happens all over again.It is a wonderfully written book, with very child friendly language, and with feelings of the little boy that children can relate to, despite being based in a different context to what a lot of children will have experienced. The soldiers then come and cut down the vines, the winter comes and it seems that all hope is lost. As the vines grow they cover the barbed wire fence which seperates the boy's village from the rest of the country and children begin to come and play together. The story shows the little boy protecting the shoot, giving it water and tending to it in secret, until it grows too big to contain. The soldiers then come and cut do This is such a lovely book! It's a story based in a ruined village, torn apart by war, where a small boy finds a tiny green shoot amongst all the rubble of the broken homes. This is such a lovely book! It's a story based in a ruined village, torn apart by war, where a small boy finds a tiny green shoot amongst all the rubble of the broken homes. 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.more 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. But the boy sees a tiny speck of green peeping up toward the sunlight, an For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.Ī 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. 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. For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.
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