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A garden called home

"A little girl goes to her mother's homeland and develops an appreciation for nature. Returning to Canada she plants a garden that represents both sides of her heritage as Taiwanese plants grow side-by-side with Canadian wildflowers."--

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Main Author:	Lee, Jessica J., 1986- (Author)
Other Authors:	Chen, E. L. (Elaine L.), 1977- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : Tundra Book Group, 2024.
Subjects:	Gardens > Juvenile fiction. Happiness > Juvenile fiction. Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction. Gardening > Juvenile fiction. Canada > Juvenile fiction. Nature fiction > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	"A little girl goes to her mother's homeland and develops an appreciation for nature. Returning to Canada she plants a garden that represents both sides of her heritage as Taiwanese plants grow side-by-side with Canadian wildflowers."--
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN:	9781774880470 1774880474
Author Notes:	JESSICA J. LEE is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, the Banff Mountain Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She has written three books of nature writing for adults, Turning , Two Trees Make a Forest , and Dispersals , and is co-editor of an anthology about dogs titled Dog Hearted. Jessica teaches creative writing at the University of Cambridge and lives in Berlin, Germany. ELAINE CHEN 's love for art began when her mother enrolled her in an art class back in Hangzhou, China, before immigrating to Toronto, Ontario, at the age of ten. Elaine went on to earn her Bachelor of Animation from Sheridan College. She recently illustrated the picture book My Day With Gong Gong , written by Sennah Yee, which was nominated for a Blue Spruce Award and was named a Kirkus and CBC Best Book. Elaine currently works as a video game artist and children's book illustrator in Vancouver, British Columbia.