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Title: Granpa
ISBN: 0099434083
Author:
John Burningham
Publicate Date: 2003-01-01
Publish: 2003-01-01
List Price: $8.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $4.57
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $5.29
Amazon Merchant Price: $8.99
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1: 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.
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2: 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.
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