Rating by Canadian Senior Years(out of 5)
Grandma U is a really cute children's book with beautiful illustrations. If you know someone who is about to become a first time grandma then this would be the book to buy them.
Written by Jeanie Franz Ranson
Illustrated by Lucy Corvino
FIRST-TIME GRANDMOTHER Molly McCool cannot remember the old nursery rhymes and she never did like rocking chairs. Why, she cannot even bake a decent cookie! But it is never too late to relearn old tricks, so Molly enrolls in Grandma University to brush up on her skills. Here, Molly and her classmates are instructed in the grandmotherly arts of cuddling and diapering, making funny faces, babbling in baby talk, and reading the same picture book over (and over and over) again!
Molly is quick to learn but is still plagued by doubts: Will good intentions and trips to the zoo be enough? But her fears disappear with the first touch of her newborn grandchild and the surprising realization that she had what it takes to be a grandmother all along.
Author Jeanie Franz Ransom offers a humorous and loving tribute to grandmothers everywhere in this warmhearted tale. Lucy Corvino's expressive, comic illustrations capture the hilarious lengths to which grandmothers will go to please and pamper their beloved grandchildren.
JEANIE FRANZ RANSOM is a school counselor and a freelance writer. She has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers and is the author of Grandma U and I Don't Want to Talk about It. A graduate of Cornell College, she holds a masters in professional counseling from Lindenwood University and works as a school counselor. She lives in Missouri with her family.
LUCY CORVINO has illustrated many children's books, including Grandma U, Robert Louis Stevenson: Poetry for Young People, and the Whodunit Puzzle and Mini-Mysteries for You to Solve series. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and holds degrees from University of Toronto and Columbia University Teacher's College. She lives in New Jersey with her husband.
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(out of 5)
FIRST-TIME GRANDMOTHER Molly McCool cannot remember the old nursery rhymes and she never did like rocking chairs. Why, she cannot even bake a decent cookie! But it is never too late to relearn old tricks, so Molly enrolls in Grandma University to brush up on her skills. Here, Molly and her classmates are instructed in the grandmotherly arts of cuddling and diapering, making funny faces, babbling in baby talk, and reading the same picture book over (and over and over) again!