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Old and Young Together Books, a partial listing of Helen Lapp's collection
(This genre of children's books is rich for sharing between the generations -- delight yourself by finding many more in the children's department of any bookstore, better yet, take a child along to test them before buying)
FIDDLIN' SAM and THE WORRY STONE - by Marianna Dengler. Ill. by Sibyl Graber Gerig (rising moon, 1996 &1999)
HANNAH & THE WHISTLING TEAKETTLE by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky (Dorling Kindersley, 2000)
A CUP OF CHRISTMAS TEA by Tom Hegg (Waldman House Press - 1982)
IT TAKES A VILLAGE by Jane Cowen- Fletcher (Scholastic Press - 1994)
THE OLD, OLD MAN AND THE VERY LITTLE BOY by Kristine L. Franklin (Atheneum - 1992)
THE KEEPING QUILT by Patricia Polacco (Simon & Schuster - 1988)
MRS. KATZ AND TUSH by Patricia Polacco (Dell Publishing - 1992, pb.)
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING by Phoebe Gilman (Scholastic - 1992)
CHERRY TREE by Ruskin Bond - Illustrated by Allan Eitzen of Barto, PA (Caroline House - 1988)
WILFRID GORDON MCDONALD PARTRIDGE by Mem Fox - Illustrated by Julie Vivas (A Cranky Nell Book - Kane/Miller Book Publishers - 1985)
ABUELA'S WEAVE by Omar S. Castaneda (Lee & Low Books - 1993, pb.)
THE MIDNIGHT EATERS by Amy Hest (Four Winds Press - 1989, pb.)
GRANDFATHER'S ROCK An Italian Folktale by Joel Strangis (Houghton Mifflin - 1993)
GRANDMA ACCORDING TO ME by Karen Magnuson Beil (Doubleday - 1992)
THE MEMORY BOX by Mary Bahr (Albert Whitman & Company - 1992)
MARIA'S GRANDMA GETS MIXED UP by Doris Sanford (Multnomah - 1989 Alzheimer's Assoc.)
MY GRANDSON LEW by Charlotte Zolotow (An Ursula Nordstrom Book - 1974, pb.)
CORDELIA FINDS FAME AND FORTUNE by Diane Browne (Heinemann- Caribbean - 1990, pb.) (A story from Jamaica)
LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch (A Firefly Book - 1986, pb.)
THROUGH GRANDPA'S EYES by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper Trophy - 1980, pb.)
THE WEDNESDAY SURPRISE by Eve Bunting (Clarion Books - 1989)
TO HELL WITH DYING - Alice Walker [Voyager Books - 1967; ill. Catherine Deeter, 1988, pb) -- Dedicated: "To the old ones in my childhood who taught me the most important lesson of all: That I did not need to be perfect to be loved. That no one does." (Granted, this title is unusual!)
GRANDMA'S GARDEN by Ediba Kezzeiz (American Trust Publications - 1991, pb.) (A story of a death of a grandmother in a Muslim family - received through Islamic Press)
MY OWN GRANDPA by Leone Castell Anderson (Golden Books - Western Publishing Co. - 1987)
THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE, ONE DARK AND SCARY NIGHT, THE DAY I SAW MY FATHER CRY & THE TREASURE HUNT [from a series of 12 easy reader books from Scholastic Press - all beguiling stories told by Little Bill (Bill Cosby)
Two about growing old, one about community and a songbook:
CARMINE THE CROW by Heidi Holder (Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 1992)
MR. NICK'S KNITTING by Margaret Wild (Gulliver Books - 1988)
THE RELATIVES CAME by Cynthia Rylant
GRANDMOTHER REMEMBERS SONGBOOK by Judith Levy (Workman Publishing - 1992)
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