Something Is Growing

by Walter Lyon Krudop

Book Overview

Little Peter finds and plants a seed in the dirt of a city street, gently helping it grow until is starts to take over the whole city, forcing a snoopy neighbor and a professor to investigate the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689319401
• ISBN13: 9780689319402
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Hopeful and sly tale about how one person makes a difference

A little boy looking a a photo of a far away land notices something lodged in the picture frame. A seed! He plants it with care, whispering, "You're going to grow!"Thus begins the tale of how one boy gives the city back to the jungle. My three year old loved the book, and now whispers to plants that they will grow. But Mama loved it even more, because it shed hope about how one passionate person can change the world around him or her, avoiding naysayers and overly conventional others. Slyly subversive, this book conveys the message that each of us can make a difference and radically alter the world for the better. When I am old and gray, a grandmother instead of a young mother, I will remember this book.In the end, the city becomes a beautiful landscape, with cleaner water and air. A picture of the boy's triumph travels to Japan, where a little girl looks at it and notices something lodged in the frame...