Young readers are given an emotionally powerful yet accessible introduction to what it is like having a close family member with Alzheimers disease in this deeply resonant story about the relationship between a girl and her grandmother. Grandmas whole family is concerned as they start to notice that she is becoming more and more forgetful. After they find her wandering the neighborhood, they need to make an important decision on her behalfthat the time has come for her to move out of her house and into an assisted living community where she can have the best care possible.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Schwartz & Wade Books .

Stephanie Graegin is the illustrator of Don't Feed the Boy , Water in the Park , Happy Birthday, Bunny!, and several other picture books. She lives in Brooklyn. You can visit her online at www. graegin. com. Bernadette Pons lives in Paris with her husband and three daughters. She also illustrated Scrubba Dub, Nancy Van Laan's companion volume to Tickle Tum!