Lydia Grace is sent to live with her uncle due to hard conditions during the Great Depression. He doesn't smile much, but she sets about cheerfully helping him in the bakery and bringing her passion for gardening to the big city. Eventually, she surprises him with a lucious rooftop garden. Her father gets a job, and she's able to return home.

Lydia Grace is sent to live with her uncle due to hard conditions during the Great Depression. He doesn't smile much, but she sets about cheerfully helping him in the bakery and bringing her passion for gardening to the big city. Eventually, she surprises him with a lucious rooftop garden. Her father gets a job, and she's able to return home.

An epistolary picture book! It's a really charming story of a girl who goes to live in the city during the Great Depression. The letters she writes home tell the story of her attempts to make her stern uncle smile by growing flowers. ( )

I wish I owned a copy of every book the Stewart and Small duo have created. ( )

Sweet book set in the 1930's told in a series of letters by Lydia Grace. After her father loses his job, she goes to live with an uncle in the city. She inherited a love of gardening from her grandma and takes that love with her to the city. Lovely illustrations as well. ( )