Identity Books for Families to Explore

Every Sunday, Tommy visited his great-grandmother, Nana Upstairs, whostayed in bed because she was ninety years old, and his grandmother, Nana Downstairs,who always seemed to be standing by the big, black stove in the kitchen. As the story unfolds, young children will understand the loving companionship thatexists between Tommy and his two Nanas. A wonderful generational story that has become a classic in its own right.

When his grandfather suffers a stroke, Bobby teaches him to walk, just as his grandfather had once taught him.

It's been a wonderful eight years, but I need a break.€ At the Happy Sunset Retirement Community, there's Ethel, Myrtle, Harvey, and Tex. And then there's Brian. The retired kid. He's here to escape school, homework, and daily chores. But retired living has its challenges, especially when you're sixty years younger than everybody else!

"A small child imagines a future when he will be old with his Granddaddy and will sit beside him in a rocking chair and talk about everything...The poignant reality that time will never allow these two to coexist at the same age is softened by the fact that they do not have to be the same age in order to share happy times...The African American child and grandfather are...recognizable to anyone who has ever shared the bond of family love across generations." - School Library Journal, starred review

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, a rather small boy, lives next door to a nursing home in which resides Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, his favorite friend, because she has four names as well. When Miss Nancy "loses" her memory, the intrepid Wilfrid sets out to find it for her. Full color.