Old man Ottaviano planted a cherry tree, which became his grandson's best friend. And so the story of an unusual grandfather who knew how to listen to plants and believed that "a person does not die while cherry trees continue to live for him" was born.    The book "My grandfather was a cherry" was included in the list of outstanding books for children "The White Crows", compiled by the International Youth Library of Munich. She was awarded prizes in Italy, Germany and France, and her author, Angela Nanetti, was nominated for the main prize in children's literature - the H. H. Andersen Prize.