You Be Grandma

by Karla Clark, Addy Rivera Sonda (Illustrator)

Overview

Karla Clark's You Be series continues with You Be Grandma, all about a grandma being just too tired to do the bedtime routine and asks her granddaughter to take over for her.

Can you be Grandma and turn off the light?
Grandma’s too tired to be Grandma tonight.

She played dress-up and drank afternoon tea.
Helped you climb up the Sycamore tree.

Took a hike and went for a dip.
Now she’s exhausted! There’s an ache in her hip.

In this clever, rhyming picture book, a grandma tells her granddaughter that she's simply too tired to be Grandma tonight and asks her granddaughter to take over for her.

An utterly relatable theme told with humor and heart provides a story parents, grandparents, and children will delight in reading together at bedtime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250814364
Publisher:	Feiwel & Friends
Publication date:	03/14/2023
Series:	You Be
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	638,557
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Karla Clark writes fiction for adults and children, but picture books are her passion. Her favorite sound in the world is a child’s giggle. Karla is a member of the Society of Book Writers and Illustrators and lives in Rockford, Illinois, with her husband and son. When she is not writing, she’s creating paper collages and digital art that she sells at art shows.

Addy Rivera Sonda is a Mexican illustrator who loves color, learning, and exploring the ways in which we could build kinder and more interdependent communities. Her biggest inspiration for drawing is that she knows that stories and art have an impact on the way people understand themselves and perceive others, and they build empathy and help us move toward a more just world.

Editorial Reviews

2022-11-29
Sometimes even adults need a little extra bedtime spoiling.

Today was a busy day for this very active grandmother. She taught yoga and Pilates, returned books, shopped, cleaned, and spent time with her grandchild: playing cards, supervising violin practice, singing karaoke, dancing…the list goes on and on! Grandma is yawning and starting to pout from fatigue. Her hip aches, and she hopes her grandchild can “be Grandma” by taking charge of their bedtime rituals: massaging Grandma’s neck, scratching her back, giving her a hug, preparing a bedtime snack, making shadow puppets on the wall, reading “a story—not once, but twice,” and wishing on the stars for sweet dreams. Though Grandma asks the little one to assume the adult role, illustrations show Grandma guiding the activities and the child initiating age-appropriate actions like turning off the lights. When the child is too tired to be the grandmother, Grandma stretches and puts the little one to bed with a kiss and a promise to “love you wherever you are.” Rhyming couplets create a soothing bedtime story accompanied by detailed illustrations in soft colors that exude calm as they capture the pair’s joyful relationship. Grandma wears large blue glasses and has short curly gray hair, and the child has dark brown hair cut in a chin-length bob. Both are brown-skinned. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A reassuring nighttime read featuring a playful role reversal. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews