Connecting with Faraway Grandparents (Package)

The Grandma doll is offered in two different styles of Storyteller and Weaver. You can choose one of them.

Lulu wants to make her grandmother a really good present. A big present. A beautiful present. The best hat her grandmother has ever had. She decorates it with flowers and leaves and feathers all of Grandma’s favorite things. But it’s not special enough yet. She adds part of a pink tutu and some red ribbon and a necklace. It’s still too plain at the top. It just needs one more thing to make it perfect.

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as making the perfect gift. Children who read her story will want to make their own perfect gifts, just like Lulu.

When a little girl visits her great-grandfather, she asks about the collection of matchboxes harboring objects she can hold in her hand, each one evoking a memory. Together they tell of his journey from Italy to a new country, before he could read and write: the olive pit his mother gave him to suck on when there wasn’t enough food; a bottle cap he saw on his way to the boat; a ticket still retaining the thrill of his first baseball game. Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman and acclaimed illustrator Bagram Ibatoulline tell a breathtaking immigration tale with appeal across generations.

A story about sewing and sharing, recycling and remembering, this book follows a special party dress a grandmother makes for her granddaughter. When her granddaughter grows taller, new fabric is added. The next year, the dress is ingeniously turned into a sleeveless jumper. Finally, when the little girl turns ten and is ready for a new outfit, she decides to give the dress to her little cousin so it can be her forever dress.

Liz Murphy’s collage artwork is the perfect medium for this inventive story of sewing and altering, mixing and matching, and the rituals that connect generations.

When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph’s mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can’t help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?

In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.