Tokyo digs a garden

Title
Tokyo digs a garden

Personal Author EPSB
Jon-Erik, Lappano

Summary
Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family's house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it takes over the entire city overnight. Soon the whole city has gone wild, with animals roaming where cars once drove. But is this a problem to be surmounted, or a new way of living to be embraced? .

Year Published
2016

Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm

Awards
2017 Spring ASLC review Alberta School Library Council

Subject
Cats -- Fiction.
 
Gardens -- Fiction.
 
Seeds -- Fiction.

Added Author
Hatanaka, Kellen, 1987-

Summary
Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around the family's house where once there were hills and trees. Will they ever experience the natural world again? One day, an old woman offers Tokyo seeds, telling him they will grow into whatever he wishes. Tokyo and his grandfather are astonished when the seeds grow into a forest so lush that it takes over the entire city overnight. Soon the whole city has gone wild, with animals roaming where cars once drove. But is this a problem to be surmounted, or a new way of living to be embraced? .

ISBN
9781554987986

Publisher
Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2016.
 
©2016.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian WestE LAPBook38515000459670Picture Books