Books with title Grandpa and Ah Gong

Toddler favorites first published as "Talk-About" board books now available as Annikins. Praise for the Talk-About-Books: Earlychildhood NEWS Directors' Choice Awards American Bookseller's "Pick of the Lists" "Good choices for preschool collections." -- School Library Journal "Highly recommended for children three and under." -- CM Magazine Perfect for a baby or toddler's introduction to books, the Talk-About-Books have immediate appeal for young children, who love nothing better than to look at photos of other children. Grown out of a desire to provide all children with the opportunity to see themselves within the books they are reading, each book features engaging photographs of youngsters from diverse backgrounds interacting with the most important people in their lives -- parents, grandparents and siblings. The simple text makes these ideal read-alouds, encouraging adult and child to explore the

“My grandfather is crazy.” So eleven year old Kerry Warren begins her story of the summer in which her family confronts the realities of aging. Grandpa has been part of their family for almost as long as she can remember. He taught Kerry to swim and made kites for her brother Matt, and the three of them collected rocks. Kerry can’t remember now when things started to change, when her life and Matt’s began to close out Grandpa. Suddenly there wasn’t time for him: she had places to go after school with her friend Jeannie, and Matt was busy with baseball practice and his stereo. And now Grandpa is different. He says strange things and sometimes thinks Kerry is the sister who took care of him as a child. There is worried talk in the family about nursing homes and the uncertainty of the future. As Kerry and her family live through the tensions of the summer, she finds that Grandpa has taken over the central position in her life from which he had been banished. She learns to know and love him in a new way. And as Grandpa’s past becomes for him the present, Kerry acquires a new understanding of her own place in the family.Her grandfather's increasing senility brings Kerry to a new understanding of both him and her own place in the family.