September Roses
On September 11, 2001, two sisters from South Africa are flying to New York City with 2,400 roses to be displayed at a flower show. As their plane approaches the airport, a cloud of black smoke billows over the Manhattan skyline. When they land, they learn of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. All flights are canceled; the sisters cannot go home, and they are stranded with boxes and boxes of roses.
In the days that followed September 11, Jeanette Winter was drawn to Union Square and saw, among the hundreds of memorial offerings, twin towers made of roses. In the pages of this small and vibrant book, she tells its moving story.
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"This very small book that even a child can hold in one hand is full of ineffable sorrow and sweetness... Winter (My Baby and My Name Is Georgia) makes beautiful patterns with her figures and her roses using her signature thick black outlines. At the center of the book, when the towers are hit and the women stranded, she switches to grisaille so the exquisitely drawn images are gray. When the roses are made into the fallen towers, the colors return." -- GraceAnne DeCandido, Booklist
Product Details
| Recommended Age | 5 - 9 |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0374367361 |
| Publication Date | Sep 11, 2004 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language | English |