Description Vincent is staying with his aunt Mimi for the summer while his mom recuperates from surgery.
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Over the years, her work has earned her many distinguished recognitions, such as the Governor General\'s Literary Award and the Québec/Wallonie-Bruxelles Literary Award in 2000, the TD Canadian Children\'s Literature Award in 2005 and 2009, and the Mr.
Anne Villeneuve has written and illustrated close to 40 books, created games for magazines, illustrated for newspapers and designed cake boxes for a bakery.
He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
About the Author Andrew Larsen is the acclaimed author of such books as Goodnight, Hockey Fans, A Squiggly Story, The Not-So-Faraway Adventure, In the Tree House and The Imaginary Garden.
It\'s an excellent choice for character education lessons on kindness, generosity and citizenship.
This book highlights the value of connecting to nature, even in urban areas, and the sense of community that comes from civic engagement.
Award-winning artist Anne Villeneuve\'s illustrations add a visual layer to the storytelling as they show the transformation from mostly gray to vibrant color, both literally, in the blossoming garden, and figuratively, in the now engaged neighborhood.
Maybe those balls weren\'t just made of dirt after all Bestselling author Andrew Larsen brings a light touch and gentle humor to this picture book story about several kinds of growth --- of the boys and their friendship, the flowers in the newly thriving lot, and the community that comes together around it.
Then one day, they notice new shoots sprouting all over the lot.
When she asks Vincent to get rid of them, the fun Vincent and Toma have throwing them into the lot becomes the start of a budding friendship.
Mimi has a mysterious box of ?dirt balls? in her apartment.
But then Vincent meets Toma, a boy who lives nearby, and things start looking up.
Mimi\'s drab city neighborhood, complete with an empty dirt lot across the street, doesn\'t seem too promising.
Description Vincent is staying with his aunt Mimi for the summer while his mom recuperates from surgery
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