We have to remember to look for the magic. Balloons, animals, smiles and more! Life can be hard and monotonous at times. Extraordinary pages alive with color and detail! You will see something new each and every time you look. We wake up! Signs of joy start to appear in color on the pages. Come see! Take a walk down the lane!Īs the big, muted brown and grey pages begin to fill in with color, readers begin to really see every line and detail.
The magic of the gardener’s work brings the people together to dream and guess and experience. Magic is out there for all to see, feel, find, and change us!Ī secret night gardener slowly transforms Grimloch Lane into a circus of wonder one tree and shrub at a time. Long after the “ooohs” and “aaahh”s fade away-the hope and energy of a creation or magical moment remain. Ages 4 8.The Night Gardener is about the impression and long lasting effects magic and art can make on a soul and a community. A treat, with artwork worth lingering over. Though the gardener leaves soon after and the trees revert to normal as the seasons change, the town thrives, as will William, it seems clear. One night, William spots the gardener, follows him, and gets a topiary lesson. Something good." A topiary parrot appears, an elephant, a magnificent dragon townspeople of varying ages and ethnicities rejoice, and the spreads take on livelier hues.
The town, initially rendered in gray pencil, shows a blush of color as people gather to marvel: "Something was happening on Grimloch Lane. In the morning, the man's artistry is revealed: the tree has been shaped into an owl like the one William has drawn. After dark, readers see the stranger at work with his shears in a tree in front of the building. William, an orphan, sits glumly in front of his orphanage scratching an owl in the dirt as a stranger walks by. Brothers Terry and Eric Fan set their first story in a dreary town and imagine what happens when it is transformed by a gardener's skill.
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