Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens―including the ancient, mysterious night garden. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island.
Her author website offers more information about her books, awards, and news.From Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. Polly Horvath is the Newbery Honor and National Book Award winning-author of Everything on a Waffle.
An additional purchase for collections where you have devoted magical realism readers. I enjoyed the sense of humor that kept the book moving, and the characters, on their own, were a fun bunch that I enjoyed my time with. Narrated in the first person by Franny, there’s humor throughout the novel, but overall, the story took a little too long to get there and meandering plots may keep some readers from fully committing to the book. There are several plotlines that kind of wander in and out of the book, like Sina’s witnessing a UFO. The Night Garden didn’t really come together for me. Can a garden really grant wishes? Franny and her friends are about to find out. Things take a sharp turn when Fixing Bob puts his plan into action, and The Night Garden seems to be everyone’s only hope in making things right. Zebediah, one of the children, knows what it is, but he’s not talking, and he’s not sharing the letters he gets from their father with his brother and sister, Wilfred and Winifred.
They live a pretty quiet life until their neighbor, Crying Alice, shows up – crying – and asks to leave her three children with them while she goes to stop her mechanic husband, Fixing Bob – stationed at a military base – from doing something dumb. 2017, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), $16.99, ISBN: 9780374304522įranny Whitekraft lives with her adoptive parents, Sina and Old Tom, on Vancouver Island while World War II rages overseas. The Night Garden, by Polly Horvath, (Sept.
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