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Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

本书构思奇特，创意新颖，从格林爷爷曾孙的视角，通过被修剪成形态各异的园林雕塑，再现了格林爷爷平淡而又富有传奇色彩的一生。格林爷爷曾是一个顽皮的小男孩儿，一位热爱园艺的青年，一名士兵，一位丈夫，现在是一个可亲的老人。随着画面的展开，爷爷的生平以浓绿的园艺雕塑一一呈现，组成一道充满生命力，又平实隽永的“记忆的长河”，使我们得以和他的曾孙一起，穿梭其中，感受生命、亲情与爱。