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24 pp.
| Candlewick |
February, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-0671-5$$15.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Abby Carter.
Grandma hasn't cut her hair since 1969; she has plants in every window; she sells bread and vegetables at the farmers' market--in short, she's everything that the narrator wants to be when she's her grandmother's age. Although Grandma is presented both in the text and in the cheerful watercolor and gouache illustrations as a free spirit, the text is made up of rather conventional, if taut and sprightly, rhymes.