The second children’s book we are celebrating in honor of Read Across America week is a great book for adults and children alike that are going through this transition. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Helping a parent to move to a senior living community can be a challenging experience that can include navigating your own thoughts and feelings, helping your parent express and process their feelings and also helping your children to understand. Ages 4-8.Ĭopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Author and artist stitch together a heartfelt reminder of the comfort that only the familiar can bring. As Oma fondly looks over the quilt, pictures of events from the woman's past cascade in a joyous full-bleed spread. As Emily and her mother sort through Oma's now-boxed-up belongings, the girl suggests that they sew a quilt from them it provides the cure for Oma's sourpuss facade.
Jorisch's (As for the Princess: A Folktale from Quebec) sun-drenched watercolors showing plump chairs and sofas in warm colors maintain a cheery mood. and even bowling on Wednesdays!" A displaced Oma is full of complaints ("The bowling alley lanes are crooked and the rental shoes smell funny" and she takes to calling her fellow residents "Nincompoops!").
(Oma's house "still smells like cabbage soup, warm yeasty dough, lemon polish and vinegar.") Though the subject is bittersweet, the author keeps the story moving in lighthearted fashion, as optimistic Emily offers her impression of Oma's new home: "There are flowers everywhere.
Bourgeois (author of the Franklin series) creates an immediate nostalgic feeling with Emily's observations. Emily tours her grandmother's empty house one last time before taking the reluctant Oma to her new residence.
The difficult transition from family home to retirement community is poignantly rendered in this cross-generational tale told from a child's viewpoint.
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