Grandpa's Slippers

by Joy Watson, Wendy Hodder (Illustrator)

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Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Valerie Joy Watson was a New Zealand author of children's books. Many of Watson's tales were based on her husband Kevin.

She was largely educated by correspondence, she later attended school at Waipukurau and St Mary's College, Wellington. After finishing school, she trained and worked as a dental nurse until she married at age twenty.

Her book Grandpa's Slippers was later adapted into a stage show.

Watson died in Havelock North on 4 October 2021, aged 83.

Abridged from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Joansie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I met a friend for lunch who made a comment about the fact that I always have my trusty copy of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne on me, which sparked a conversation on which books my friend and I had recently read. Some where, while eating our meals, our conversation shifted to the books we remembered most from our childhood. For me, a child who never got read bedtime stories, I don't particularly have many memories of reading picture books. This book however is one of the few that I do remember. A book of which I greatly adored as a child. Everything about this book, from its easy-to-read storyline to its simple illustration, was a joy to experience.

My friend stated that she too remembered reading this book and that she appreciated it just as much as I did so we headed down to our local library and looked for it so we could curl up in the over sized cusions found in the children's section to read it together, but to our disappointment the book wasn't there. I also remember a few other titles like Grandpa's Cardigan and Grandpa's short. I read those also, but I was never as persistent with them as I was Grandpa's Slippers. I recommend this to anyone who loves a good picture book. The second- third last illustration always had me crying for days as a kid haha!

[Karen Dransfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

A delightful story about a grandpa who loves his old tattered slippers, and all the places grandma tries to hide them... It does have a fun repetition part each time there is a hide and find... which grows with each time. A great shared story.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

An old favourite.

[Barbara Howe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had hoped for a book my husband—who never wants to get rid of anything either—would enjoy reading to our grandchildren. The illustrations are great and the text has a nice rhythm, but Grandma's stubborn underhand attempts to get rid of the slippers—after being told repeatedly not to—rubbed us the wrong way. Not a good model of successful conflict resolution.

[Greywood Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a classic alright 👍

[Paloma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lía este conto como 3 veces á semana de pequena e, sinceramente, still slaps. He's just like me for real.

[Shivers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grandpa's slippers is funny like Grandpa's cardigan because he wants to keep his old slippers and cardigan and Grandma tries to get rid of them, but he keeps finding them. There's another one called Grandpa's shorts too.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny picture book. A grandma wants the grandpa to shrow out his tatty slippers, but he doesn't want to. I loved doing their voices.

Shows a compost pile, which was interesting because I have never seen that in a picture book.

[Michael Earp · Rating 4 out of 5]

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really cute story and it's so funny to see all the ways that Grandma tries to get rid of his slippers!