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Isabel feels invisible due to others’ attitudes and personal circumstances. Isabel lives with her family, who is overstretched and cannot afford what others can. However, they have each other, plenty of love, and an eye for beauty. Not long after, the family is forced (due to a lack of money) to move from their house to a council estate. The…
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Luna’s dad loves gardening and introduces her to the community garden, where adults and children enjoy the activity and share stories. Luna joins her grandparents and learns that plants originate from various parts of the world, including South America and Jamaica. It is even more fun when Luna swaps seeds and discovers from the children that calabash plants can be…
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A badger, Pete is obsessed with cleanliness and eventually understands the impact of his actions. Badger wants the forest to be perfect and does everything he can to make this happen, such as tidying, scrubbing, and polishing. However, the forest still looks less than ideal for Pete’s liking. Pete goes to the extreme by digging every tree and covering the…
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Grandfather arrives from India on a visit to his grandchildren’s house, following imaginative stories about his country of origin. Grandad finds warmth and great hospitality from the family, who settled in an unnamed country where the weather seems different and provokes a conversation of how it is an India. Being a skilful storyteller, he uses many comparisons to describe it…
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A girl shares unconditional love with her Indian grandad. The little girl and granddad are inseparable, fond of each other, sharing moments that unfold during the seasons. They explore nature, play games and enjoy stories told by Grandpa. Grandad loves to give small handmade gifts to her granddaughter; a notebook encourages her creativity to “write and draw”. The book is…
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A boy told the story of his great-grandfather by strolling into a topiary-shaped garden. The book follows the crucial events of Grandpa Green’s life from birth, school years, service in the military, marriage and elderly years. The pages reveal parallel facts about Grandpa Green’s life next to artistically drawn images. Grandpa lives a content life and passes his story through…
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