Lorenzo, a Venetian glassmaker, lives with his wife and daughter in a palace with beautiful gardens. When his wife gets stung by a bee, he takes his daughter away to live on a rocky island where there are no bees to sting, but no birds or flowers. There he build his daughter a glass garden.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2000 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Fiona French won the 1986 Kate Greenaway Medal for her astonishing art-deco illustrations in Snow White in New York. Joyce Dunbar is a widely respected author of more than fifty books for children.