When the boy reunites Grandpa Green with his missing things, readers discover that though Grandpa sometimes forgets, the garden remembers for him. Splashes of red-berries, a hair bow, gunfire and a heart-make brief appearances in this green world, but green, like Grandpa’s name, is the star of this show. Many of the illustrations morph with page turns: Tears from the baby become water from a hose a mysterious conical shape becomes a cannon a bunny near a tiny tree munches a carrot topiary. The trees tell the story of his great-grandfather’s life-from birth to chicken pox to high school to military service and, later, marriage. Watering a garden, pulling a wagon, collecting dropped gardening gloves and tools, a little fellow works in an amazing topiary world made of memories.
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