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Sidewalk flowers / JonArno Lawson, Sydney Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books : House of Anansi Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 25 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781554984312
  • 1554984319
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Sidewalk flowers.LOC classification:
  • PZ7.7.L395 Si 2015
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Awards:
  • Charlotte Huck Recommended, 2016, National Council of Teachers of English
  • A Junior Library Guild selection
Summary: A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.
List(s) this item appears in: Juvenile Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Children's Books JUV LAWSO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5125465

"Illustrations by Sydney Smith"--Page preceding title page.

Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature (illustration), Canada Council for the Arts.

A little girl collects wildflowers while on a walk with her distracted father. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. This wordless picture book, conceived by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and beautifully brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.

Ages 4-7.

Issued also in electronic format.

Charlotte Huck Recommended, 2016, National Council of Teachers of English

A Junior Library Guild selection

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