Grandpa Green

A Caldecott Honor Book

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a Caldecott Honor-winning timeless story of family history, legacy, and love.

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.

In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

This title has Common Core connections.

Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011.
One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 08/30/2011
ISBN: 9781596436077
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.81h x 11.30w x 0.41d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Red Clover Award - Nominee
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2011
Booklist 07/01/2011 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2011
School Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 86
New York Times Book Review 08/21/2011 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 08/28/2011 pg. 22
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2011 pg. 78
People Weekly 10/10/2011 pg. 54
Shelf Awareness 08/30/2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 06/29/2011
New York Times Book Review 11/13/2011 pg. 29
New Yorker (The) 12/05/2011 pg. 85
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 27
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2012 pg. 45 - Superior,Well Above Average
BookPage 09/01/2011
School Library Journal 06/01/2013

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 145730 / Grandpa Green
Reading Level: 2.5 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5