Granpa

by John Burningham

Book Overview

Adorable Granpa gamely nurses his granddaughter's dolls, eats her pretend strawberry-flavored ice cream, takes her tobogganing in the snow, and falls in step with her imaginary plans to captain a ship to Africa--like all good grandfathers should. Winner of the Kate Maschler Award, this poignant tale of friendship and loss is one children will long remember.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099434083
• ISBN13: 9780099434085
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Red Fox
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 3.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

most loving book!

this book is incredible! the movie format is magical. i bought it for my daughter before my father died. we loved it. after my father died, i could not open the book for over a year. it was so heartbreaking. but, now it's so comforting. wonderful book for all ages. movie is a great companion.

wonderful book for all ages

My 3-year old daughter likes this book a lot and so do I, both the pictures and the simple yet affecting story. It is basically a series of scenes of the little girl playing with her granpa, each accompanied with just a few words spoken, such as a scene where she is playinmg with mudcakes and granpa says "'This is a lovely chocolate ice cream.'to which she says 'It's not chocolate, it's strawberry.'" or another scene--that resonates only too well with real life--where granpa seems peeved and someone, perhaps the girl's mother off-stage, says "That was not a nice thing to say to granpa." And these scenes are interspersed with scenes of imagination or wistful memory, in a playful and clever way. The illustrations are beautiful, to our eyes anyway; they are perhaps somewhat rough or sketchy, but the author's technique is always fresh, engaging and colorful. (We have 6 or 7 of his books now, this one being the favorite.) The book is quite moving, as you will see. Our 3-year old is delighted with every page of the book, but also seems to, you know, sort of get the deeper drift of it. An excellent book, entertaining, subtle, moving.