Gaga Mistake Day
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
When Grandma comes for a visit, silliness and creativity are guaranteed, in this funny and endearing book by bestselling novelist Emma Straub; her kids' gaga, Susan Straub; and award-winning illustrator Jessica Love.
Gaga days are the best! That’s when this eccentric, mischievous grandma babysits her delighted granddaughter. These Gaga days are always full of the silliest “mistakes,” like swapping eyeglasses and walking backwards to the park. Like making the house safe by eating all the marshmallow goblins, filling the tub to bursting with bubbles, and then reading a bedtime story all the way through upside down.
With touches of Amelia Bedelia and Eloise, this irrepressible granny might just inspire deliciously goofy, endlessly creative, and bursting-with-love grandma-grandchild playdates!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gaga, the glamorous grandmother of this book's young narrator, revels in defying convention throughout a rollicking familial portrait by mother-daughter Susan (Reading with Babies, Toddlers & Twos, for adults) and Emma Straub (Very Good Hats). Cataloging the ways that Gaga turns things upside down when visiting her grandchild each week, the child begins broadly: "She makes lots of mistakes." When grandmother and grandchild walk to the park, "Gaga makes up silly rules, like we can only walk backwards the whole way, or we can only walk on cracks in the sidewalk." When the child, portrayed with light brown skin, teaches pale-skinned Gaga ballet moves, Gaga "does them all wonky." Gaga sometimes annoys the grandchild's parents by being generous with marsh-mallows before dinner, and filling the tub at bath time with mountains of bubbles that have to be mopped up. ("Mistakes are fun, aren't they?" Gaga says.) As the Straubs highlight with panache the importance—and pleasure—of breaking the rules, Love (A Bed of Stars) captures Gaga's Auntie Mame–style dash, spontaneity, and sartorial splendor, and the air of conspi-ratorial delight that she and her grandchild share. Ages 4–8.
