Author Description

In this backyard garden, each memory is harvested like a giant orange pumpkin, each hardship is weathered like a sudden winter snowfall, each relative is nurtured like a fresh fragile sapling, and love blossoms like flowers all year round. The acclaimed, best-selling author of "Sophie's Masterpiece, When Mama Comes Home Tonight," and "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch" invites young readers to step out the back door and into a family garden where plants aren't the only things growing.