Congratulations to Peter Brown for winning the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for picture books.  The award honors the read aloud standards created by White’s classics like Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little.

It’s our favorite children’s book from 2009, and our best-seller for young and old.  Customers light up when they first discover it.  They cradle it, and smile as they reach the end.

Inspired by a garden in NYC, the book is about a boy who discovers a struggling garden of weeds and transforms it—along with the glum gray city—into a lush, green world.

Story and illustrations are beautiful, whimsical and magical.

It’s a wonderful read aloud for all ages.

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Liam may not have been a gardener, but he knew that he could help.  So he returned to the railway the very next day and got to work.  The flowers nearly drowned and he had a few pruning problems, but the plants patiently waited while Liam found better ways of gardening.

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