A Garden For Grace

A Garden For Grace - an art-book quality book of poems and drawings written and illustrated by Ellen Mainville. For children from five to ninety-five. 68 pages 8.5x11 over 50 full-color illustrations.Imagine a farm: Dad in the fields Mom busy in the kitchen and Grandma planting and weeding in her extensive flower beds. They are gardens shes created through many years in every available space of her domain. She now has the leisure to putter me time she could only steal in snatches as a busy farm-wife and mother. But what are gardens and leisure time without someone to share them?Along comes a little girl for Grandma to watch and to care for: a girl who also learns to love and care for Grandmas flowers-and who learns about life and love at the skilled hands of the wise old woman. The girl grows up her parents retire the farm is sold. The girl becomes a mother then a grandmother herself. The descendants of Grandmas plants still live transplanted to her own gardens. Grandmas lessons live too: in her memories passed down to her own children to grandchildren nieces nephews and friends and now to us all in her artwork and poems...A Garden for Grace explores family love and life through lessons taken from beauty in nature and is also is a botanically accurate guide to 48 common garden flowers.