Green Green by Marie Lamba is a simple but effective community gardening story with lots of rhyming and beautiful illustration. Green grass is wide and fresh and clean for a family to play in. Brown dirt is perfect for digging a garden.
But when gray buildings start to rise up and a whole city builds. Can there be any room for green space? The neighborhood children think so. They inspire the community to join together and build a garden for everyone to share in the middle of the city.
Marie Lamba (www.marielamba.com) is author of the humorous young adult novel What I Meant… (Random House), which Publisher’s Weekly dubbed “an impressive debut.” She’s also author of the summery YA novel Over My Head about a girl who has either met the love of her life or a player out to break her heart. Marie’s newest novel is a time travel YA romance titled Drawn, which is about an artist who falls for an attractive medieval ghost with a sketchy past. Her short story “What I Did…” is in the Philadelphia Liars Club anthology Liar Liar (Mendacity Press). Marie’s debut picture book Green Green (Farrar Straus Giroux), co-authored with her husband, and illustrated by Sonia Sanchez, comes out in 2017.
