Lily's Victory Garden.

Lily's Victory Garden. Lily's Victory Garden Helen L. Wilbur, author Robert Gantt Steele, illustrator Sleeping Bear Press c/o Thomson Gale 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535 9781585364503, $16.95 www.sleepingbearpress.com 1-800-231-5163 "Lily's Victory Garden" is a recent release in theTales of Young Americans series, which tells the tale of Lily, whoplants and tends a Victory garden in the neglected kitchen garden of herneighbors the Bishops, a family who lost their son Ned early in WW II.Lily lives in an apartment with only a flowerbox for gardening but shewants to do all she can to help the war effort. "Lily'sVictory Garden" has moments of hope and despair and eventual growthand triumph over unimagined adversity. To supplement the story,historical background about WW II and the Home Front is provided at theend of the story. Delicately illustrated with spring-colored watercolors and illustrations, "Lily's Victory Garden will reachout to children ages 6-10 to tell them of this era of recent historyfrom a child's point of view.