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I Go with My Family to Grandma's
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Children's Book about traveling to Grandparents house on different forms of transportation. [s]

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message 1: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 4 comments A book from the 80s or early 90s about all these different families traveling to their grandparents house. Each family has a couple kids and they all take a different mode of transportation to get there I think. Like bicycles, a bus, a train. At the end of the book there is a big group photo of the grandparents and all the families who were traveling to see them. I loved this book as a kid!


message 2: by Tab (new)

Tab (tabbrown) | 5084 comments Maybe, I Go with My Family to Grandma's?

Here is another description: Five little cousins narrate the brief text: Millie's family arrives from Manhattan on a tandem bicycle, Bella's on a Brooklyn trolley, Carrie's in Papa's horse-drawn grocery wagon from Queens, Beatie's from the Bronx on the El, and Stella's by car and ferry from Staten Island. Goode makes the most of the opportunity to portray the variety of homes and transportation of the period--the crisply new Williamsburg Bridge (1903) sets the date. Again using soft-colored pencils and a predominance of earth tones, her elegantly organized compositions marvelously evoke turn-of-the-century New York. The reunion rivals Gammell's The Relatives Came in exuberance; the hordes of children include two sets of twins plus triplets in one family (the scene showing five of them sliding down a curved banister is a gem). The children look rather like Cabbage Patch dolls, but have cheerful individuality nonetheless; the scene where they all settle down for a family portrait makes a satisfying conclusion to a warm-hearted reminiscence. (Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1986)




message 3: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 4 comments Thank you SSSOOOOO MUCH! This is it, I just ordered it!


message 4: by Tab (new)

Tab (tabbrown) | 5084 comments You're welcome! It looks like a really cute book :)


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