My Baba's Garden
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My Baba's Garden

My Baba's Garden

By
Jordan Scott (Author) Sydney Smith (Illustrator)  

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The special relationship between a child and his grandmother is depicted in this sumptuous book by an award-winning team. Inspired by memories of his childhood, Jordan Scott's My Baba's Garden explores the sights, sounds and smells experienced by a child spending time with their beloved grandmother (Baba). He visits her every day and finds her hidden in the steam of boiling potatoes, a hand holding a beetroot, a leg opening a cupboard, an elbow closing the fridge, humming like a night full of bugs when she cooks. This is a stunning ode to the special relationship between grandmother and grandchild, needing few words, but rooted deeply in ritual, touch and feeling.
Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, Decomp and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of a National Film Board of Canada project: Flub and Utter: a Poetic Memoir of the Mouth. Scott was the recipient of the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry. The award-winning I Talk Like a River was his first book for children.Sydney Smith has illustrated multiple children's books, including the Kate Greenaway-shortlisted I Talk Like a River, Small in the City and Town Is by the Sea, which both won the Kate Greenaway Medal and Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children's Book of the Year and a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration. Find him online at www.sydneydraws.ca and on Twitter and Instagram as @sydneydraws.
  • Contributor: Jordan Scott
  • Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781529515565
  • Number of Pages: 40
  • Packaged Dimensions: 245x245x5mm
  • Packaged Weight: 220
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
  • Release Date: 2024-03-07
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, Decomp and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of a National Film Board of Canada project: Flub and Utter: a Poetic Memoir of the Mouth. Scott was the recipient of the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry. The award-winning I Talk Like a River was his first book for children.Sydney Smith has illustrated multiple children's books, including the Kate Greenaway-shortlisted I Talk Like a River, Small in the City and Town Is by the Sea, which both won the Kate Greenaway Medal and Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children's Book of the Year and a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration. Find him online at www.sydneydraws.ca and on Twitter and Instagram as @sydneydraws.

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