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How can Adam bring the green warmth of home to his new urban world? An inspiring fable from Michael Foreman about making friendship grow.

Adam feels alone in the strange new city. He misses his old friends and the colors of his faraway home. It’s fun to build snow animals with children in his new neighborhood, but Adam’s concrete surroundings still make him wish for something more. So when a teacher gives him a few seeds, it plants an idea in him—an idea that could transform his gray world forever.

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ISBN-13:	9780763678340
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/04/2015
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Michael Foreman has written and illustrated many children’s books, including Say Hello with Jack Foreman. His work has been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Kurt Maschler Award, and the Bologna Ragazzi Award. He lives in London.

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05/18/2015
In his story about an African boy who has immigrated to a Western country, Foreman (I Love You, Too!) lets his artwork supply most of the information. Adam is from a “faraway place,” but he has moved to an apartment in a city. It’s exciting, but lonely; Adam paints his homesickness, hanging pictures of African animals on his wall. He draws more animals in the frost that appears on the windows and, during his first snowfall, models huge snow animals with help from neighborhood children, “and soon there were snow rhinos and lions, a snow crocodile, and a snow camel, too.” The same children make Adam’s entry into school easier (another hint about Adam’s background is the headscarf his mother wears when she takes him to school). When he discovers that he is interested in his school’s garden, his friends help him build gardens all over the city. Free from conflict and tension, the story imagines a city supportive of immigrants and ready to befriend them. Soft, smiling figures and a bright palette convey gentle acceptance. Foreman doesn’t preach; he simply shows people at their best. Ages 4–8. (Aug.)

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Free from conflict and tension, the story imagines a city supportive of immigrants and ready to befriend them. Soft, smiling figures and a bright palette convey gentle acceptance. Foreman doesn’t preach; he simply shows people at their best.
—Publishers Weekly

An immigrant story without angst and with lots of love and hope.
—Kirkus Reviews

Foreman’s airy watercolors support the dreamy text well, and the transformation of the dreary city is quite beautiful and inspiring. A light friendship fable that may inspire urban gardeners, making it a useful addition to library collections.
—School Library Journal

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2015-04-29
A small, brown boy named Adam loves his new home, a tall building in a big city, but he misses the warmth of the place he is from. He asks his parents for stories from that place, and he fills his walls with drawings of the animals from the stories: elephant and rhino and lion. When the cold ices his apartment-building windows, he draws these animals with his finger in the frost. Adam is delighted with his first glimpse of snow, and when he joins the gaggle of children making a snowman, he encourages them to make snow rhinos and elephants, which they all do. (There's a bit of a time disconnect when Adam starts at his new school after a few days "when the snowy world had melted," and the children are in sweatshirts and the school garden is in bright green leaf.) Adam's teacher gives him seeds to take home, and he and his friends plant them in window boxes, roof pots, and bare patches of the city. The watercolor images are simple and clear, depicting a generic city, an ethnic mix of children, plants and flowers bursting with gentle color. The story leans toward sentimental rather than didactic, and the pleasant calm of the text reflects the geometric pattern of a storybook urban landscape. An immigrant story without angst and with lots of love and hope. (Picture book. 4-8)

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