I Really Want to See You, Grandma
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
Yumi and her grandmother have the same great idea: They want to see each other. So they each head out to do just that, only to completely miss each other along the way! No problem—they'll just head back home and wait for the other to return. The trouble is that they have the same great idea—again—resulting in the ultimate missed connection! Will this duo ever find each other? Leave it to bestselling author-illustrator Taro Gomi to spin an action-packed story that sweetly, and humorously, celebrates the powerful grandparent-child bond.
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Japanese author-illustrator Gomi (Bus Stops) imagines a transportation mix-up in which two journeys intersect in fun and serendipitous ways. Yumi lives on a hilltop, and Grandma lives across town, on a mountaintop. Impulsively, they both set out to visit each other on the same day. Yumi's bus drives over the bridge just as Grandma's train travels underneath it. Arriving at their destinations, they immediately discover their crossed paths. "Oh, no!" Yumi cries. But they meet, eventually, in the middle. The book's short, wide trim size contributes plenty of space for the landscapes to unfold, and Gomi's saturated colors have jewel-like tones; the richly textured watercolor washes in simple shapes have the soft look of fabric. There's gentle comedy in the big, obvious gestures of the neighbors who help explain the situation to Yumi and Grandma, and the different forms of transportation add interest. Unspoken, but also gratifying, is the idea of a place in which a small child can set out alone to see her Grandma in perfect safety. Ages 3 5.
