Cover of Boy in the Garden

Book 2010

Boy in the Garden

4 readers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Language
English
Published
2010
  • Birds, fiction
  • Dreams, fiction
  • Japan, fiction
  • Children's fiction

While his father visits Mr. Ozu to convey traditional New Year greetings, Jiro wanders out to the garden drawn to a life-like statue of a tall bird which reminds him of the "Grateful Crane" story that his mother had read to him.