Author: Sarah Stewart
Illustrator: David Small
Genre: Historical Fiction
Grade level: 2-6
Award: Caldecott Honor
The Gardener is a story of a little girl, Lydia Grace Finch, who leaves her parents and her grandmother to live with her uncle in the city and help in his bakery during the Great Depression. The story is told through Lydia Grace's letters to her family members. Lydia grows throughout the story like the flowers she grows in her rooftop garden.
The illustrations won this book a Caldecott Honor Medal. David Small creates illustrations the perfectly represent the Great Depression era. The book's illustrations are done so well, they could tell the story even without the words. Some pages are only full-page illustrations with no texts and still tell the story. They are captivating to all readers.
This story would most interest middle elementary students from age seven to eleven. It tells students an important message of finding hope even in the tough times. This book contains a lot of history and will give students insight on what many families had to do during the Great Depression.
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