Beautiful

Susie Gregg Fowler and her husband, Jim Fowler, create sanctuaries of compassion and beauty in their books. This is a story of a child whose love for his uncle is honored so honestly by his family that even in the uncle's illness and death there is room for joy, for beauty, for hope, for celebration of all that endures in the human soul. The story and pictures never fall off into sentimentality or glibness; every beautifully chosen word of the story, every illustration of the family and of the garden, carries one gently into the story of a family coming to terms with love and loss and the real work that must be done for a family to stay whole.