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Inspired by the High Line: "The Curious Garden" reviewed
May 12, 2009 | Author: Michelle Sharkey | Categories: ,

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This Sunday's New York Times Book Review featured a review of its current #2 best-selling children's book: The Curious Garden, a lushly illustrated tale of a boy who finds an expanse of flowers and plants growing in the most unlikely of places: an abandoned elevated rail line.

In last week's Book Review podcast, author and illustrator Peter Brown talks about his inspiration for the story: the High Line, "this lush, wild garden area that was taking care of itself. It was really this pretty miraculous site. And so when I discovered that place, when I first moved to New York, I decided that I wanted to make a book about nature living in the city in sort of an unlikely way.”

You can listen to the interview here. If you missed the readings at 192 Books and Books of Wonder, check out Peter Brown's web site for information on upcoming readings.

 

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