On Emma's seventy-second birthday her four children, seven grandchildren, and fourteen great-grand-children gave her a painting of the little village across the mountains where she grew up. "It's beautiful," she said, but that was not what she was really thinking. "That's not how I remember it at all," she said to herself.
One day Emma bought paints and brushes and painted her village just the way she remembered it. This was the beginning of a whole new life her.
Wendy Kesselman's delightful story was inspired by the artist Emma Stern, who began to paint late in life, and Barbara Cooney's exquisite illustrations are based on Emma Stern's paintings.
"Filled with old-fashioned warmth and gracefulness." -Booklist
"Kesselman's story and Cooney's bonny full-color illustrations guarantee that adults as well as tinies will cherish this touching, heartening book." -Publishers Weekly
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