Our Garden: An illustrated tour of the National Garden. The book "Our Garden" by Athina Deligianni offers a contemporary illustrated approach to the National Garden, one of the most iconic public spaces in Athens.

The book treats the Garden as the central protagonist, a place where nature, a child's perspective, and the memory of the city meet. The narrative, as an imaginary mapping, is organized like a tour, where each image functions as a stop on an imaginary map of the space. The reader is invited to recognize landmarks, paths, and small scenes from reality. To see on paper what they will encounter on their actual walk.

The book proposes an interactive reading experience that does not end with the closing of the last page but continues during the real walk in the Garden. The child can identify the painted with the real and create their own personal map by observing the sense of place to understand the urban environment.

Through imagination, the city becomes less abstract and more inhabitable. As a publication, the book also functions as a fine art book. The delicate line of the painting, the aesthetic of the handmade, and the careful printing place it in the realm of artistic editions, a book addressed not only to children but also to adults.

In a time when our relationship with the city seeks new ways of meaning, "Our Garden" offers a calm, sensitive view of the public space, reminding us that reality can become a field of imagination, as long as someone stops and looks at it.