The community spirit is shown as homes with boarded-up windows turn into a dynamic community right before their eyes. It is filled with community spirit that readers can watch build steadily as the night gardener gives his gifts. This book is slow and steady, magical but also homely. Still, the text has gorgeous moments such as William watching the first topiary until it was too dark to see it anymore. The text is simple, allowing the detailed illustrations to shine. As seasons change, the topiary disappear but the community spirit doesn’t. The next morning William awakens to see the park transformed by his work. It is the night gardener and William helps him until he falls asleep. He follows the man to the local park where the man turns and invites William to help him. It is that night that William notices a stranger with a ladder walking along. Then one day, there is a dragon, that inspires the community to hang lanterns in its branches and along the road. There is a cat, a rabbit, a parakeet, and an elephant. Day by day, more topiary appear along Grimloch Lane. William wakes up one morning to discover that the tree outside his window has been changed into an owl topiary. The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers ( InfoSoup)
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