Why We Chose This Book: The Forever Garden

At first glance, The Forever Garden is a simple story of the friendship between a girl and her neighbour. Honey lovingly tends her garden and shares the fruits of her labour with young Laurel, until one day Honey moves away, leaving the garden for her home’s new occupants and leaving Laurel with the knowledge to continue Honey’s legacy. The story is simultaneously gentle and powerful, and this combination is echoed in the illustrations of pastoral garden scenes punctuated by splashes of bright colour.

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Summer Travel Tips

PJ Library is sending a bonus with the July PJ Library book--summer Travel Tags! Inspired by a traditional Jewish prayer (The Traveller’s Prayer), family members can express their own wishes for the family trip and attach them to a backpack, a suitcase – or even a bicycle or tricycle handle, if your trip is around the neighbourhood.

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