When Iris’s family moves to the country, Iris is mad. There’s nothing to do and no one to play with. The country is as lonely as Mars. But then Grandpa suggests a walk. And down the road, around the bend Iris finds a huge green tree, an inviting rope ladder and maybe, just maybe, a new friend.
Honors:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
An ALA Notable Children’s Book
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A PEN Center USA West 2001 Literary Award in Children’s Literature
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A knock-out kickoff to a beginning reader series.
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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“Guest’s elegantly simple, emotionally resonant entry…promises that Iris and Walter will join Frog and Toad and Henry and Mudge in a prominent place on the easy- reading shelves.”
The Bulletin
