The ACB with Honora Lee
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
A touching, playful story about family, forgetfulness and friendship.
Every Saturday Perry and her father visit her gran, Honora Lee, at the Santa Lucia retirement home. But Gran never remembers them. ('Who is that man?' she asks Perry, when Perry's father leaves the room.)
Like Perry, Honora Lee is 'unconventional'; she is also sharp, outspoken, and full of surprises. So when Perry discovers that Honora Lee has an avid interest in the alphabet, she decides that together they will compile an ABC of life at Santa Lucia.
Of course Honora Lee's 'ACB' is entrancingly unpredictable and disorderly, so it's up to Perry to take the reins.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, THE ACB is an uplifting, moving and poetic story about the patience, acceptance and understanding of the very old and the very young.
A unique, refreshing and resonant story perfect to share with those you care for, which celebrates being different and will delight readers of all ages.
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New Zealand writer De Goldi's (The 10 PM Question) story of an only child's determined efforts to know and love her grandmother deserves a place in the pantheon of quiet, word-of-mouth classics. Perry's mother, a psychologist, has the nine-year-old scheduled up to the hilt ("Monday was piano with Gabriel.... Wednesday was clarinet with James"); her father jets off to conferences overseas. When Thursday's activity is cancelled, Perry proposes weekly visits to the nursing home where Gran is hospitalized with dementia, and a strange and touching friendship unfolds. Perry, who's as good at drawing as she is hopeless at everything else, begins assembling the alphabet book of the title Gran's name is Honora Lee and sets down with beguiling honesty all she sees at the nursing home ("W is for Walking Stick, which Melvyn uses as a Weapon"). Over time, it becomes clear that Gran's inability to recognize people does not mean that her life is any less precious or noble. Perry is funny and bewitching, and all the other characters, even the walk-ons, are equally engaging. O'Brien's curious diagram-illustrations pay appropriate tribute to Perry's admiration for the unconventional. Ages 10 up.
