Grandpa Green

From the creator of the national bestseller "It's a Book" comes a 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 me...

From the creator of the national bestseller "It's a Book" comes a 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.

美国著名图画书作家、插画家，他创作且绘制插图的《这是一本书》连续六个月位列《纽约时报》最佳童书榜。并已被翻译成20种语言。他创作的其他童书，如《五个小英雄》和《总统夫人》均荣登美国畅销书榜。他还曾为苏斯博士、罗尔德·达尔、杰克·普里卢斯基、弗洛伦斯·帕里·海德以及约翰·席斯卡等著名作家的书做过插图，其中《臭起司小子爆笑故事大集合》曾荣获凯迪克银奖。现在，他和妻子书籍设计师莫莉·里奇住在美国康乃迪克州郊外。