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The more you give, Marcy Campbell, Francesca Sanna

eng

illustrations

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Ages 4-8, Alfred A. Knopf

Grades K-1, Alfred A. Knopf

fiction

The more you give

Marcy Campbell, Francesca Sanna

Once there was a wide-open field, and a boy who loved his grandmother, who loved him back. The boy’s grandmother gives him many gifts, like hugs, and Sunday morning pancakes, and acorns with wild and woolly caps. And all her wisdom about how things grow. As the boy becomes a father, he gives his daughter bedtime stories his grandmother told him, and piggyback rides. He gives her acorns, and the wisdom he learned about how things grow. His daughter continues the chain, then passing down gifts of her own. Here is a picture book about the legacy of love that comes when we nurture living things—be they people or trees

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