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Boyden, Linda

The Blue Roses

32 pp. | Lee | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 1-58430-037-X $$16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Amy Cordova. Young Native American Rosalie learns to garden from her grandfather, who can grow everything but the blue roses she yearns for. After he dies, he appears with blue roses in a dream, reminding Rosalie that "we're in different gardens now." This absorbing, lyrical book's only misstep is its clunky, literal ending: Rosalie finds blue roses on her grandfather's headstone. Expressive paintings convey the close intergenerational bond.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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