The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Picard, Valérie

The Invisible Garden

64 pp. | Orca | April, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4598-2211-5 $19.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4598-2213-9

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Marianne Ferrer. During a visit to her grandmother, young Arianne adventures through time and space in the garden--flying with dragonflies, swimming with fish, and catching a star with her butterfly net. Ferrer's soft, otherworldly illustrations, which play with size, shape, and perspective, pull the reader through Arianne's apparent dream. The book would work better if wordless; the few words are unnecessary and feel like an afterthought.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth