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Author: Ann Tompert
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 051757487X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.
Author: Brian Sargent
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2007-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531168349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young girl learns about shapes such as triangles and parallelograms from her grandfather, who teaches her using a special puzzle and a story.
Author: Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher: Chartwell
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0785840230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on his life, My Grandfather’s Life guides your grandfather to begin his life’s memoir and create a fully realized record of his adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.
Author: Jim Arnosky
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Grandfather Buffalo, the oldest bull of the herd, trails behind the group, he finds that he is joined by a newborn calf.
Author: Sennah Yee
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1773214306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals he’s been paying more attention than she thought. With lighthearted, expressive illustrations by Elaine Chen, this charming debut expertly captures life in the city and shows how small, shared moments of patience and care—and a dumpling or two—can help a child and grandparent bridge the generational and cultural gaps between them. A glossary at the end of the book features translations of the Chinese words from the story into Chinese characters and English. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Author: Lane Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-08-30
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1596436077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
Author: Sheri Mabry
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0807506206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When worrying takes over, a boy uses mindfulness to calm down, just like Grandpa taught him. Every fall a boy hikes up the mountain with his grandpa and parents. Except this year he and his parents moved to a new place, and Grandpa's back home. As the boy sets out on a new mountain trail with his parents, he begins to worry about everything that's different. But he remembers that when Grandpa needs to calm his worries, he uses mindfulness. So the boy does too.
Author: Elizabeth Zunon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1681196417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This beautifully illustrated story connects past and present as a girl bakes a chocolate cake with her father and learns about her grandfather harvesting cacao beans in West Africa. Chocolate is the perfect treat, everywhere! As a little girl and her father bake her birthday cake together, Daddy tells the story of her Grandpa Cacao, a farmer from the Ivory Coast in West Africa. In a land where elephants roam and the air is hot and damp, Grandpa Cacao worked in his village to harvest cacao, the most important ingredient in chocolate. "Chocolate is a gift to you from Grandpa Cacao," Daddy says. "We can only enjoy chocolate treats thanks to farmers like him." Once the cake is baked, it's ready to eat, but this isn't her only birthday present. There's a special surprise waiting at the front door . . .
Author: Glyn Harper
Publisher: EK Books
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781775592990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The award-winning team of Glyn Harper and Jenny Cooper share this poignant story about a Vietnam veteran and his relationship with his granddaughter. While the relationship is a positive one, the young girl senses her grandfather’s pain and is curious to find out the cause of it. As she innocently seeks answers, she unknowingly opens old wounds and discovers her grandfather’s sadness is a legacy of the Vietnam War and his experiences there. This is a sensitive exploration of the lingering cost of war and of the PTSD so many returned servicemen experience. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Khe Sanh (the Vietnam War’s longest battle), My Grandfather's War also sheds light on a war that is not always remembered in the same way that the world wars and other conflicts are. Many who served experience a sense of betrayal at the treatment they received on their return, as the conflict came to be regarded as the ‘unpopular’ war, and this is covered in a child-friendly way in a note at the back of the book.
Author: Russell Shorto
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0393245594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.
