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This book traces the socio-cultural, economic and family transformations in the role of grandparents in Asia. It features a rich body of qualitative, three-generational data drawn from grandparents, link parents and grandchildren.
Celebrate the special bond between grandmas and grandkids with this delightful New York Times bestseller that puts the kids in charge of babysitting…if just for one day. The perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, and any day shared with Grandma! When you babysit a grandma, if you’re lucky, you’ll have a sleepover at her house! And with the useful tips found in this book, you’re guaranteed to become an expert grandma-sitter in no time. (Be sure to check out the sections on: How to keep a grandma busy; Things to do at the park; Possible places to sleep, and what to do once you’re both tucked in for the night.) From the author-illustrator team behind the New York Times bestselling HOW TO…books comes a funny and heartwarming celebration of grandmas and grandchildren. Product Features: Baby Books Board Book 1 to 3 years 26 pages Random House Jean Reagan Product information is provided by the supplier and BJ’s does not represent or warrant the information is accurate or complete. Always consult the product’s labels, warnings, and instructions before use. Please see additional terms atbjs.com/termsofuse
A cheerful story from a renowned Canadian children's book author and an award-winning illustrator "Radiant picture book" -Quill & Quire Set in the Nicola Valley, British Columbia, in Canada's westernmost province, a First Nations family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. A grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life and the natural world to her young grandchildren. | Author: Nicola I. Campbell | Publisher: Crocodile Books | Publication Date: October 31, 2017 | Number of Pages: 32 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1566560411 | ISBN-13: 9781566560412
Based on the Webby award-winning Instagram account Drawings for My Grandchildren, this beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the special love shared between grandparents and their grandchildren. Like many grandparents wishing to stay close to their grandchildren in a world in which so many families are spread across the globe, Korean grandparents Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina, decided to learn how to use Instagram as a way to stay connected. What started as an intimate family project, their Instagram page @drawings_for_my_grandchildren has attracted a large following and their story has been featured in major press around the world. This book inspired by their Instagram page features Chan's watercolors accompanied by Marina's texts. Whether it's to celebrate Astro becoming a big brother to Lua or to share the story of how the grandparents met for the first time and fell in love during their college years, Looking Back Life was Beautiful echoes with the kind of family love that spans generations and traverses geography. A testament to the great wisdom only grandparents can provide to younger generations, Looking Back Life Was Beautiful will inspire families to always stay close and connected.
Life is a beautiful journey, filled with countless tiny victories that often slip by unnoticed. From a baby’s first tooth to mastering potty training, these inchstones deserve celebration. Welcome to…
A list of children's books about inclusion, from teachers and parents. Add these inclusive children's books to your home library.
“Oh magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.” “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived. As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed. ” -from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943) Facebook statuses have recently been overflowing with The 10 Book Challenge: "In your status, post 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes and don't think too hard. They don't have to be the 'right' books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way." I was tagged and have decided to share my faves here on my blog. I have to say that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn quickly came to mind! Here is my quick list of books that have had an impact on me (sorry, I couldn't quite keep it at 10, so here are the Top 15 Books I Love)... 1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 2. Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder 3. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 4. Hinds Feet On High Places by Hannah Hurnard 5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9. Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (& Harriet Vane) by Dorothy Sayers 10. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling 11. Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy by Sigrid Undset 12. 84 Charing Cross Road (and all others) by Helene Hanff 13. Andy Catlett: Early Travels: A Novel by Wendell Berry 14. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis 15. Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father translated by Vera Bouteneff Honorable mention/Not to be missed: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren; Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene; James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small series; Little Britches books by Ralph Moody; The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes; Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr.; Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Mitford Series by Jan Karon; Grand Duchess Elizabeth by Lubov Millar. Did I leave out any of your Top 10...15...or 20???
Filled with nostalgic charm, this beautiful hardcover "Little Big Book" features a delightful and expansive collection of fairy tales, poems, songs, activities, stories, recipes, and more for a grandparent to share with her grandchild. The ... More
Malidoma Patrice Somé bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society. An excerpt from Ritual: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African ShamanIn the Life of the Dagara people, the first few years of a child's life is spent with the grandparents, not the parents.What the grandparents and grandchildren share together, that the parents do not, is their close proximity to the cosmos.Grandparents will
At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.
24-year-old Israeli man Daniel Philosoph is one of a growing number of grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors around the world that are using their bodies to memorialize some of the darkest days in history for Jews.
Gaywambana! And thank you to Kim, my Wiradjuri daughter, for teaching me the word for welcome. If you wander over to my other page, you’ll see my beautiful girls and grandchildren. I’ve…
The author's novels topped global bestseller lists in each decade from the 1960s onwards. He won widespread international acclaim as a humanitarian, as well as a literary giant, winning the Olof Palme Prize in 2020.
Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have 'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.' Meg Wolitzer Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed by this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Roland's charming but arrogant voice with an incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of 27. Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel, a gleefully one-way correspondence between the very-much-alive Lilia and the long-departed Roland. Though mortality is ever-present, this is ultimately a novel about life, in all its messy glory. Life lived, for the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With exquisite subtlety and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.
