Grandpa Green

A Caldecott Honor Book

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a Caldecott Honor-winning timeless story of family history, legacy, and love.

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.

This title has Common Core connections.

Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011.
One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.

Author: Lane Smith
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 08/30/2011
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.81h x 11.30w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781596436077
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 145730 / Grandpa Green


Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Red Clover Award - Nominee
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2011
Booklist 07/01/2011 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2011
School Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 86
New York Times Book Review 08/21/2011 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 08/28/2011 pg. 22
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2011 pg. 78
People Weekly 10/10/2011 pg. 54
Shelf Awareness 08/30/2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 06/29/2011
New York Times Book Review 11/13/2011 pg. 29
New Yorker (The) 12/05/2011 pg. 85
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 27
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2012 pg. 45 - Superior,Well Above Average
BookPage 09/01/2011
School Library Journal 06/01/2013

About the Author
Lane Smith has written and illustrated a bunch of stuff, including picture books There Is A Tribe Of Kids; John, Paul, George & Ben; Madam President; and middle-grade novel Return to Augie Hobble . He is the author and illustrator of 2012 Caldecott Honor book Grandpa Green, and the New York Times bestseller It's a Book, which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Lane's titles with Jon Scieszka have included the Caldecott Honor-winner The Stinky Cheese Man; The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs; Math Curse; and Science Verse. Lane's other high profile titles include Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! by Dr. Seuss and Jack Prelutsky;The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders; Big Plans by Bob Shea; and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. In 1996 Lane served as Conceptual Designer on the Disney film version of James and the Giant Peach. Lane also wrote and illustrated the retro, cult favorites, The Happy Hocky Family and The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country. Like the Hocky family, he and book designer Molly Leach live in a little town in the country.