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38 pp.
| Blue Apple |
June, 2005 |
TradeISBN 1-59354-070-1$12.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Amanda Haley.
Numbered job titles are paired with amiable pencil and watercolor portraits of a grandmother or a grandfather interacting with grandchildren: providing comfort after a bad dream ("1. security blanket"), defining a word for an aspiring reader ("32. dictionary"), etc. The grandparents occasionally look miffed, which may amuse the adults who are the real audience for these books. Review covers these titles: 40 Uses for a Grandpa and 41 Uses for a Grandma.