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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Drawing on her personal experience, dozens of interviews, and the latest findings in psychology, Jane Isay shows how a grandparent can use his or her unique perspective and experience to create a deep and lasting bond that will echo throughout a grandchild's life. She also offers a wealth of practical advice, from when to get involved, when to stay away, and how to foster a strong relationship when you're separated by long distance.
3) Snow
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Series
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
Follows a boy and his grandfather as they enjoy an extraordinary snow day.
4) Grandma
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
Elle, who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
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"Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been...
Author
Publisher
Grammy Time Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 X 31 cm.
Description
"One-on-one moments in time for Grandparent and child captured through simple, heartfelt verse and colorfully vibrant illustrations. Each shared moment is filled with amusement, giggles and love; each page an opportunity to interact and discover."--Jacket.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
Sixth grader Peter is pretty much the average kid. He likes gaming, hanging with his friends, and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all: his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won't go without a fight.
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Silas' Seven Grandparents is a fun and loving story about having multiple sets of grandparents and stepgrandparents. When Silas' parents go away on a business trip, all seven grandparents invite Silas to stay with them. How can he choose one without hurting the others' feelings?
10) The bear hug
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Cubby loves spending time with Grandpa Bear, especially when Grandpa gives him the Bear Hug.
11) Love, Mouserella
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David Ezra Stein pens irresistible tales that win over young readers while earning such distinctions as the Caldecott Honor and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. In this engaging book, a young mouse sits down to write her grandmother a letter, but she can't think of anything to say. All of a sudden, though, she is flooded with ideas and starts scribbling down all the wonders of her life. A warmhearted story, Love, Mouserella may even inspire young...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
13) Giant Island
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"In this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchful eye of Grandpa, the kids are thrilled to discover ahuge surprise: the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and wind-swept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem"--
14) Hope
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Two lions celebrate their grandchild and express all the ways this new life has expanded their world, and the hope they hold for his future"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oldschool grandparents Artie and Diane get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter's overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games, and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart the kids and achieve the impossible - bringing the family...
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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 8
Description
Spending the night at Gram and Grandpa's house, Llama Llama discovers that he cannot sleep because he has left Fuzzy Llama at home, but Grandpa soon comes up with a solution to replace the stuffed toy.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve year old Jack's grandpa lives in a rest home and often mistakes Jack for his World War II squadron commander, but when grandpa wants to escape his boring situation, Jack has to decide how he will help him.
18) Hello, fall!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A grandparent and child recall the beautiful and wonderful sights and sounds of a fall day spent together.
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Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Everything seems to be changing for the better at Hotel Transylvania. Dracula's rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn't showing signs of being a vampire.
"The whole thing is amiable and colorful and surprisingly low on body-function gags. It may not kill you to take your kids."--New York...
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