Thank You, Grandpa

by Lynn Plourde

This glowing picture book, by turns playful and poignant, portrays the tender relationship between a grandfather and granddaughter as they appreciate nature together over the years. They take their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525469923
• ISBN13: 9780525469926
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 11.7"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and well presented

Art is beautiful Realistic Tears threatened A great way to respond to death

Excellent, honest, beautiful, sad book about death

This is one of the books that helped my three-year-old understand and accept her grandfather's death. The "thank you" refrain gives you a way to focus on something positive without being insincere or dishonest. It's a sad book, and hard to read to a child, but--if you agree with "the experts" that it's important to be honest, share your own sadness, admit your own uncertainties, and allow children the opportunity to ask questions--it's an excellent resource. My daughter asked for this book two or three times after I read it to her, and she has made positive comments about thanking her grandfather and remembering happy shared experiences that were clearly inspired by it and, I believe, represented healing and acceptance. If you're in the same position I was recently, I can only say I'm sorry and good luck. Death of a loved one is hard enough for us adults. Explaining it to a child who had no concept of mortality is incredibly, poignantly sad.

read first before you read it to your child...

I wasn't prepared at all and when I got to the page where the little girls grandpa is not longer walking with her I couldn't read further for at least two minutes because I had to cry. This book is really so nice but you should read it by yourself first.