Like modern-day “Miss Rumphius” and her promise to make the world a more beautiful place, this luminous story brings the scope of a lifetime into focus for a young reader and fills it with the magic of gifts given and received.
This moving and radiant story of the relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter, and the joy and promise passed down between them, begins one quiet dawn…
On the morning of her eighth birthday, Maude buries a secret at the foot of a flowering dogwood— and inside it, a tiny toy elephant, a marble like a tiger's eye, a bird's nest with purple string woven through the twigs, and more.
A special box. A gift, waiting for the right moment to be opened again.
At once lyrical and profound, this enchantingly illustrated book is a joyful celebration of intergenerational relationships and of the secret treasures of childhood. Young readers and adults will delight in the memories and magic tucked away in the red tin box.
