Overview / 简介: |
| Ages 6^-9. Young Tiffany moves with her mom, Janelle, to a trailer home that sits by itself, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Summer has just begun, and school is out. Janelle must go to work, can't afford a sitter, and is forced to leave Tiffany home alone every day. Rather than wallow in loneliness, Tiffany busies herself with, among other things, transplanting some seedlings she finds and tending them in the hope they will grow into flowers or trees. When kindly Bob, the mail carrier, admires Tiffany's tomatoes, melons, and potatoes, she is terribly disappointed to learn her plants are vegetables, not flowers. Sensitive to her feelings, Bob soon brings some pansy, marigold, and petunia plants along with the mail. As summer progresses, he also shares gardening tips to ensure Tiffany a healthy harvest. Realistically drawn in pen and ink and watercolors, the illustrations underscore the nurturing theme of the tender story: Janelle and Tiffany's spontaneous embrace at the kitchen sink while doing dishes, their playful outfitting of a scarecrow for the garden, and their experiments with new recipes for tomatoes and melons reflect the genuine love between mother and daughter. Bob's attentiveness reveals one gardener's support for another who's less experienced but eager to learn. Featuring strong, appealing characters, Perkins' first book is caringly phrased and washed in warm colors. Ellen Mandel |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| When Janelle and her daughter, Tiffany, move to an isolated trailer out in the country, Tiffany must spend long afternoons alone while Janelle is at work. Just when the TV and her Barbie doll begin to grow stale, Tiffany discovers something magical by the garbage cans: tiny green seedlings. Imagining trees and flowers, she transplants them alongside the driveway, her hopes of gracious living privately stirred by an article in her mother's "Home Lovely" magazine: "A garden pleases the eye and is a companion to the soul." When Bob, the postman, comments on her tomato, melon and potato plants, the girl is devastated. But as the tender plants grow through the summer, so does a friendship. First-time author/artist Perkins fills this convincingly sweet tale with imaginative details and true-to-life dialogue. Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations show invariably sunny scenes, with further bright spots created by the characters' gaily patterned clothes. A spacious story that allows ordinary loneliness and unexpected kindness to assume their proper proportions. Ages 5-up. |
Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| Models for children a very realistic and down to earth way of being proactive in today's world. Holds children's attention, they want to know what will happen next. |
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