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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
32 pp.
| Kids Can |
September, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-1-55453-488-3$18.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Sylvie Daigneault.
In Honduras, when María Luz's father goes in search of work, he leaves her in charge of the floundering family farm. A new teacher gets María Luz to try some techniques that revive the garden, which in turn inspires other villagers. The well-meaning text is wordy. Each spread contains a full-page colored-pencil illustration, sometimes with surreal elements. Glos.