LEADER 00000cam 2200397 i 4500 001 sky304143129 003 SKY 005 20211201102413.0 008 201204s2021 onca a 000 1 eng 015 20200409816|2can 020 9781771474146|q(hardcover) 020 1771474149|q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)1225512191 040 NLC|beng|erda|cNLC|dBDX|dYDX|dNZ1|dGRC|dUtOrBLW 042 lac 082 0 jC813/.6|223 092 |fE|aHRA 100 1 Hrab, Naseem,|eauthor. 245 14 The sour cherry tree /|cwritten by Naseem Hrab ; illustrated by Nahid Kazemi. 264 1 Toronto :|bOwlkids Books,|c2021. 264 4 |c©2021 300 1 volume (unpaged) :|bcolor illustrations;|c29 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 AD520L|bLexile 520 "After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her baba bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her baba bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories of the man she knew, and also the man she didn't know. This isn't a book that seeks to explain death and dying, or a book about the experience of more formal customs around death, like Matt James' The Funeral. What it is, is both strikingly whimsical and matter-of-fact, which is highlighted by what we think is one of the best first lines of any picture book we've read: "I bit my Mom on the toe this morning." It also is wonderfully centred on the experiences of the little girl--|cProvided by publisher. 521 8 AD520L|bLexile 650 0 Children|vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Grandfathers|vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Grief|vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Death|vJuvenile fiction. 700 1 Kazemi, Nahid,|eillustrator.
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