Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Mr. Rogers Phoebe Wahl has melded truth

Phoebe Wahl has melded truth with fiction and art with text

leaving a legacy of growing both trees and community

For instance

ALA Notable Book

Tivoli Gardens

Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Mr. Rogers Phoebe Wahl has melded truth"Smith spins a quietly moving narrative Wada's large scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story's restrained text The graceful way in which this book handles a sensitive and serious subject makes it a first purchase." School Library Journal When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then