Beautiful

by Susi Gregg Fowler

Book Overview

Uncle George loves to garden and can turn empty spaces into something blooming and wonderful. He shares his talent with his young nephew, teaching him to grow a garden of his own. When George becomes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688151116
• ISBN13: 9780688151119
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

"Beautiful" will restore your sense of joy and hope.

Susie Gregg Fowler and her husband, Jim Fowler, create sanctuaries of compassion and beauty in their books. This is a story of a child whose love for his uncle is honored so honestly by his family that even in the uncle's illness and death there is room for joy, for beauty, for hope, for celebration of all that endures in the human soul. The story and pictures never fall off into sentimentality or glibness; every beautifully chosen word of the story, every illustration of the family and of the garden, carries one gently into the story of a family coming to terms with love and loss and the real work that must be done for a family to stay whole.