Sidewalk flowers

Title
Sidewalk flowers

Personal Author EPSB
JonArno, Lawson

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.

Year Published
2015

Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm.

Awards
2015 Fall Litpicks ASLC review Alberta School Library Council.

Subject
Flowers -- Fiction.
 
Father and child -- Fiction.

Genre
Stories without words.
 
Graphic novels.

Added Author
Smith, Sydney, 1980-

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.

ISBN
9781554984312

Publisher
Toronto ; Berkeley : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2015.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Shauna May SenecaE LAWBook31929000006299Picture Books