Author: Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher: Chartwell
ISBN: 0785840249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on her life, My Grandmother’s Life guides your grandmother to begin her life’s memoir and create a fully realized record of her adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061847666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.
Author: Jeffrey Mason
Publisher: Eyp Publishing
ISBN: 9780578647135
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Give Your Grandmother the Gift of Love, Memories, and Legacy. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story is the perfect place for your Grandmother to tell her life story while also creating a cherished legacy. Imagine reading your Grandmother's words as she shares her journey. Imagine sitting with your children, her grandchildren, and reading her story to them. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story uses prompts and questions to guide your Grandmother to tell the stories of her childhood, her teens, and her adult years. This will be her tale, her triumphs, her challenges. Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason has created a guided journal that will give your Grandmother the gift of legacy and you and everyone she loves, the gift of memories. Buy Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story and give your Grandmother a unique gift that will continue to give as the years go by.
Author: Questions About Me
Publisher: Tell Me Your Life Story Series
ISBN: 9781952568299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Betty Quan
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554989558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss. Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner, but the rice bowls stay full. One day, Grandmother’s room is empty. And soon after, she is buried. After the funeral, Grace’s mom turns on all the outside lights so that Grandmother’s spirit can find its way home for one final goodbye. Carmen Mok’s gentle illustrations show the love between a child and her grandmother in this story that will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one. Betty Quan’s picture-book debut is haunting yet hopeful. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Author: Jonathan Tweet
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250134110
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Where did we come from? It's a simple question, but not so simple an answer to explain—especially to young children. Charles Darwin's theory of common descent no longer needs to be a scientific mystery to inquisitive young readers. Meet Grandmother Fish. Told in an engaging call and response text where a child can wiggle like a fish or hoot like an ape and brought to life by vibrant artwork, Grandmother Fish takes children and adults through the history of life on our planet and explains how we are all connected. The book also includes comprehensive backmatter, including: - An elaborate illustration of the evolutionary tree of life - Helpful science notes for parents - How to explain natural selection to a child
Author: Alice Lee Marriott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806118253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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?Once in a blue moon (which means a fairly long cycle in my case) one who deals professionally with new books comes upon something that seems to him truly noteworthy and memorable-a reading experience which he will cherish for the rest of his life. And when this book is original and, indeed, unique-when it achieves something that has never been done before-one's impulse is to rent a billboard, to hire a hall, in some way to underline and emphasize the excitement and enthusiasm of his discovery, so that other readers may share his pleasure. "This has been my experience with The Ten Grandmothers, by Alice Marriott. It was the custom of certain tribes of Indians of the Great Plains to keep a 'winter count,' or calendar, of important events. Each year an officially designated scribe or historian of the tribe inscribed on a specially selected and prepared buffalo hide (which was a sacred tribal possession) a colored pictograph commemorating the most noteworthy event of the year-the happening or circumstance for which the year would be remembered in the oral literature and traditions of the tribe. "Miss Marriott's book is based upon such a tribal history of the Kiowas, an important and tenacious nation of the southern Great Plains, for more than a hundred years. She has taken representative incidents from this story and built each into a unified narrative of personal experience, concrete and dramatic. The thirty-three narratives fall into four groups reflecting the major phases of Kiowa history in the last century; they are called, since Kiowa .economy was based on the buffalo, The Time When There Were Plenty of Buffalo; The Time When Buffalo Were Going; The Time When Buffalo Were Gone; and Modern Times. Since the same characters appear recurringly, the book has the effect of a loosely constructed novel. "Miss Marriott is an ethnologist. Her book is based on eight years of work with the Kiowas?work that certainly consisted of much more than superficial interviews with aged Indians. There is evidence everywhere, not only of accurate scientific knowledge of the material to be presented, but of profound human insight and understanding. "Miss Marriott is also a creative artist of extraordinary powers. Her book has abundant humor, drama and melodrama, beauty and sordidness, pathos and tragedy: all presented sharply, objectively, with economy, restraint, and dignity. The narrative of the long journey of Wooden Lance, to see for himself and for his tribe whether the leader of the Ghost Dance movement (that inspired the last desperate, irrational struggle of the plains Indians against the whites) had 'true power is unforgettable in its simplicity and reality. The story of the Kiowa girl Leah's return from her years at a boarding school in the East to her family on the reservation is as true and socially significant as it is poignant and dramatic. "The great achievement of Miss Marriott's book is that it makes accessible to the reader of today the essence of a culture, a way of life and thought, now almost vanished from the earth. "We have an uneasy feeling that some special meaning and value for Americans of today and tomorrow must lie in the older cultures of our continent which our own has so largely displaced. American writers from Longfellow on have tried with varying degrees of success to capture that meaning for us. "Miss Marriott's book shows that our feeling was justified. No discerning reader will fail to find in the men and women who are so vivid in its pages-Sitting Bear and Eagle Plume, old Quanah and Spear Woman, and the Kiowa boys riding in their jeep to enlist for the present World War-in their vision and knowledge of life and their essential experience, abundant meaning for today."
Author: Rina Singh
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459819071
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Key Selling Points Based on a true story from Phangane village in India’s Maharashtra state, where grandmothers attend the Aajibaichi Shala (school for grandmothers). For many of them, this has been their first time in a classroom. Explores how important education is, especially for girls and women who have historically been left behind. Ellen Rooney’s bright and vivid illustrations shine as this book moves through the effects that the opportunity for education has had on one grandmother. The author dedicated this book to her own grandmother, who never had the chance to go to school. This book encourages readers to think critically about why education has historically been withheld from women and about gender inequality overall, as well as to consider what basic human rights and needs are. Grandmother School was the winner of the 2021 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize.
Author: Katie H. Sweeney
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Create a cherished family keepsake with this grandmother's journal Grandmothers have an entire lifetime of unique memories and perspectives that can help younger generations discover where they came from and offer wisdom to guide them. Stories From Grandma is full of questions and prompts that help grandmothers organize the story of their life into a beautiful journal that families can share and pass down for generations to come. The prompts on each page will give your family a glimpse into where grandma came from, what she experienced, and her hopes for the future. It's her opportunity to reflect and open up about her past and things she wished she had learned from her own grandmother. The questions and activities are designed to trigger memories, highlight personal insights, and help grandma connect with the younger members of your family. A lifelong keepsake—This grandma journal can be saved and shared with children, grandchildren, and beyond. No rules—Grandma can open the book and pick any prompt, go through them in sequence, or have someone else write while she dictates—it's up to her. Time for everything—The prompts are grouped by themes and ideas, with sections for grandma's childhood, jobs, favorite things, big events, friends, and more. Preserve grandma's legacy for your family to treasure forever, with this grandparent journal.
Author: Jean Lee
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781676898542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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"Grandma, Tell Me Your Life Story" is a guided journal with questions on every page for a grandmother to answer for her grandchildren. This large, 8.5x11 book offers plenty of lined space for grandmas to write about their childhoods, their likes and dislikes, and memories along with their hopes and dreams. Each page provides space to write the date; and most pages included several prompts to really help draw out answers. Makes a great gift and a lasting keepsake!
