by JoyceDunbar (Author), Fiona French (Illustrator)
Lorenzo, a Venetian glassmaker, lives with his wife and daughter in a palace with beautiful gardens. When his wife gets stung by a bee, he takes his daughter away to live on a rocky island where there are no bees to sting, but no birds or flowers. There he build his daughter a glass garden.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Published: 01 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 071121445X
ISBN 13: 9780711214453
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years
Book Overview: Joyce Dunbar was runner-up for the 1985 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for Mundo and the Weatherchild . Illustrator Fiona French won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Snow White in New York .