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Smith, Lane

Grandpa Green

32 pp. | Roaring Brook | August, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-607-7 $16.99

(2) K-3 As his "great-grandkid" narrates Grandpa Green's life, the old man himself depicts its major events in his own felicitous medium: topiary, rendered by Smith in multimedia shades and shadows of evergreen. Meanwhile, Grandpa creates a new work that's revealed--in a double fold that recapitulates the book--to be the boy. A thoughtful, eloquent, and elegantly illustrated book to explore, consider, and read again.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2011