Books with title Grumpy Grandpa

Gregory’s Grandpa Grumpy is certainly cranky—he can find something wrong with anything and everything, even though there’s nothing really wrong at all! Take the zoo, for example. When Grandpa Grumpy takes Gregory and his friends on an outing, it’s too hot, it looks like rain, and they might even be late getting there. Not to mention the baboons are too smelly, the camels are too bumpy, and the ice cream is, well, too messy! But every one of Grandpa’s negatives results in a positive for a child—one can see the baboons better, another gets an extra ride on a camel, and a youngster with no money ends up with Grandpa’s ice cream cone. Even when he is too hot and tired to go on, Grandpa manages to find a place to rest … right next to a playground! Most children have encountered a grump at one time or another—maybe even in their own families. This chuckle of a book teaches kids to look beyond the gruff exterior, like Gregory does, to find the love inside.

Maggie Sullivan is a sweet and precocious young girl growing up in Michigan in the 1980s, who discovers through this 10-book series, that she has some very interesting abilities. "All of the Maggie Sullivan books involve things which I, as a child (and probably most pre-teen children), dreamed about being able to do or be." ~ Laurie Lesser Hodgson. In Book 8 of the Maggie Sullivan Series, Maggie deals with the death of her grandfather, and must help her grandmother unravel the mystery surrounding his unfinished business.

Genre: Modern realistic story with familiar setting, two characters and patterned language in question and answer format.Learning Objectives: Word RecognitionStrand 5: Recognize automatically an increasing number of familiar high frequency words. Language ComprehensionStrand 8: Visualise and comment on events, characters, and ideas, making imaginative links to their own experiences.