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Author: Lori Steward

Publisher: Palmar Press

ISBN: 978-0-9839293-0-7

Nowadays, grandparents need to step up to the plate and read as often as they can to their own grandchildren or young children at every opportunity they get. In Lori Stewart’s book, If I Had As Many Grandchildren As You ...,” this idea of reading to grandchildren makes it not only fun but also interesting and educational.

This unnumbered but around twenty page hard bound book has several cut out photographs of children under the age of five doing different tasks against a red background on the front cover and a paragraph about the book along with an author biography on the back cover. There were no misspellings, typographical, grammatical or punctuation errors. The book is in rhyming format and would best be read out loud to a young pre-school child, especially if that reader was a grandparent.

The first colorful page of the book has a lazy large sleeping lion with one sentence stating the book is “For grandparents everywhere, for you are the memory makers.” This is the crux of the book’s contents and why it promotes grandparents to engage in reading to their cherished grandchildren and make memories.

The story is about a grandpa who is reading a book outside in his garden, watching children play nearby and he hears a low roar. When he follows the noise, he discovers a grand lion named Grand Paws wearing a red cap, lying among his planted peas. The big, furry lion tells the grandparent that he speaks for all young children and he will show him things to do, places to go and games to play with his own grandchildren.

The lion mentions the seashore and building sand castles, making driftwood horses, taking balloon rides above famous sites, having a wildlife parade, and suggests showing them how to fish, sing and dance. In the end, all the children would learn that life is for sharing with each other, and that sharing can be taught and enjoyed by a grandparent.

The photographs in the book are stunning, colorful and sometimes several to a page that the listener will be captured in the rhyming words written on each page while looking at the pictures. Although some of the words may be more mature for the young preschooler, it is a wonderful book to promote activities, fun, togetherness and especially sharing with loved ones. This book is a perfect bookshelf keeper for all grandparents’ homes that will create memory after memory.


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