Grandfather's Garden has the endearing and enduring quality of a classic of a new kind. As with the Harry Potter books, its rollicking stream of quirky tales is for "both little and big folk"--that is, for "kids, teens, grownups, and for the close, warm delight of reading aloud by moms and dads to kids at bedtime." Eggplants big as elephants. Tap dancing stalks of celery. A pomegranate that made of itself a big bass drum and walked around...