My Baba's Garden (Walker Books版)

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※こちらはWalker Books版です

少年は、毎日、ばあばのおうちにいきます。
お父さんの車で。海のそばを、まだ暗いうちに。太陽が昇ってくる様子をながめ、鯨の背のような山々を見つめながら。
ばあばは口ずさみながら、朝ごはんを作っています。
彼女のおうちの部屋は、庭でとれた野菜でいっぱいです。
ばあばは幼い頃、満足にごはんを食べられなかったそうです。

少年はばあばに連れられて学校にいきます。
雨の日、ばあばは時々、腰をかがめてミミズを捕まえて、瓶に入れます。
家に帰ってばあばは庭にミミズを放すのです……。

「I Talk Like a River」の詩人Joadan Scottと夢の中のような光を描くSydney Smithコンビが描く少年とばあばの物語。穏やかな時間が流れていく美しい絵本です。

My Baba's Garden
by Jordan Scott (Author)
Illustrated by:Sydney Smith
Format:Hardback 40 pages
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Imprint:Walker Books Ltd
ISBN:9781529515558
Published:2 Mar 2023
Weight:416g
Dimensions:247 x 249 x 10 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Description
The special relationship between a child and his grandmother is depicted in this sumptuous book by an award-winning team. Inspired by memories of his childhood, Jordan Scott's My Baba's Garden explores the sights, sounds and smells experienced by a child spending time with their beloved grandmother (Baba), with special attention to the time they spent helping her tend her garden, searching for worms to keep it healthy. They visit her every day and find her hidden in the steam of boiling potatoes, a hand holding a beet, a leg opening a cupboard, an elbow closing the fridge, humming like a night full of bugs when she cooks.

A ritualistic relationship with few words, rooted in feeling and emotion.