Friday, November 19, 2021

Grandpa Christmas by Michael Morpurgo and Jim Field - OPTIONAL

Grandpa Christmas by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Jim Field
. PICTURE BOOK. Farshore (Harper), 2021. $7 (paperback reprint). 9781405294973 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW 

Now a woman, every year she pulls out a letter that her Grandpa wrote to her when she was a little girl. His love for her extends to love and reverence for the world around them and the hope that she and hers will be good stewards of the land. 

I was very disappointed that a sweet letter from grandfather to granddaughter became a didactic lecture about caring for the earth. I don’t mind books about caring for the earth – I was taken aback that that was the point in a book called Grandpa Christmas. A jarring, unexpected lecture was not what I was looking for. 

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS

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