书名：The Gardener 园丁小恩的秘密花园

读者对象：6-9岁

作者：Sarah Stewart  出版社名称：Square Fish出版时间：2007

语种：英语ISBN：9780312367497商品尺寸：20.9 x 0.3 x 27.5 cm

包装：平装页数：40（以实物为准）

Review

"Late in the summer of 1935, Lydia Grace's parents are out of work, and to help make ends meet they send Lydia Grace to live with Uncle Jim, a baker in the city...Told entirely through letters, the story radiates her utterly (and convincingly) sunny personality...[An] inspiring offering from creative collaborators." --Starred, Publishers Weekly

"A moving, wonderfully rich illustrated story. It is that rarity, a pictorial delight that in 20 double pages gives more and more of itself each time it's read, and whose silent complexities reveal themselves with continuing pleasure." --The New York Times Book Review

The Gardener《小恩的秘密花园》讲述了一个小姑娘带着种子、微笑和爱照亮人们生活的故事。小姑娘莉迪亚带着满满一手提箱的种子和信纸，来到萧条落败、灰暗的大城市，和性情乖僻、不苟言笑的舅舅生活在一起。她的到来给舅舅的面包店增添了一抹亮色；她种植的花草给顾客带来了欢笑；她的天真乐观带给这个城市缕缕温暖的阳光。但她伟大的计划是营造一个秘密花园，让舅舅也绽放一个大大的笑容。故事发生在美国大萧条时期，小主人公莉迪亚是一个坚强、友善的小姑娘，她的慷慨大度给周围的人们带来了阳光、爱和欢乐。

Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile. Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting.

Husband and wife duo Sarah Stewart and David Small have worked together on several picture books, including The Friend, The Money Tree, and The Library. The Gardener is a Caldecott Honor book. Small has also illustrated other books, including the 2001 Caldecott Medal winner So You Want to Be President?, by Judith St. George. Stewart and Small live in a historic home on a bend of the St. Joseph River in Michigan.

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