Posted by Part of the Awkward+Awesome children’s book series.
Have you ever seen a skateboarding granny? This is the story about a granny kicking butt at getting old. A powerful book that helps connect generations and presents “aging” and “getting old” in a different light. Teaching children that learning and trying new thing shouldn’t be dictated by our age.
What if age wasn’t something to fear. What if we just grew better with age? Granny Bari, is just that kind of lady. Part of the Awkward+Awesome children’s book series that celebrates all things weird and wonderful, The Granny That Never Got Old urges us to reconsider what aging and growing old looks like. Sure, her body looks like it’s 95, but her mind never aged a day past 20.
This is a wonderfully playful book that helps children, and adults alike, recreate what it means to grow older. Getting old doesn’t have to mean life is over; instead, it has just begun.
The Granny That Never Got Old will have children looking at their grandparents with a bit more wonder and childlike fun, because aging with style could be for everyone – especially those who are almost one hundred and one.
Bold and bright and sure to entertain, is a story about one Granny that wants to jump from a plane. But that’s not all, she’d do more than just fall. Find out what Granny gets up to in this fun tale that pushes ideas about what getting old looks like.
Author Biography
Lindsay Ford is the author and illustrator for Bread + Clutter Books: An independent publishing house based on Vancouver Island changing the way we think of the world, and the inhabitants of it. Her Awkward + Awesome children’s book series celebrates real people/places/things with their uniquely amazing stories – however strange or odd they may be. Stories of unsuspecting, unlikely heroes who manage to change the world we live in just by being themselves. Titles include: The Granny That Never Got Old, Tommy Tutu, The Big Bike Bamboozle, Ugly Food, The Grandpa That Never Grew Up, Howard, Science Girl, Candy Bar War, Lonely Doug and Josie Jelly: The Donut That Ran For Mayor.
8 x 8 – 32 Pages (Full Colour)
Price $19.99
Shipping $6.99
GST $1.35
Total $28.33
See Lindsay’s other books too!
Science Girl
Lonely Doug
Tommy Tutu
Candy Bar War