Grandpa Monty's Muddles
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Winner at the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. A subtle, deceptively simple book about the relationship between a kid and his Grandfather, suffering from Alzheimer's. Love and understanding are often the best tools for dealing with this problem. And who better to help than a mischievous grandson?
My Grandpa Monty is a bit confused: he tries to roast the chicken inside the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he’s always forgetting my name! My mom and uncle Andrew are worried things could get worse, so they decided it was best if Grandpa came to live at our house.
I’m glad he’s with us now because he helps me with my homework and I help him with his. Although I keep getting into trouble trying to help him… But I’d do anything to stop my grandpa from forgetting things! Anything. What about you? What would you do for the people you love?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A fluent, witty translation gives U.S. audiences a passport to a particularly fine entry in the Alzheimer's subgenre, first published in Spain. Seven-year-old Oscar explains that his family wasn't sure Grandpa Monty was really ill, at first: "Mom thought he was doing it to get our attention." But it quickly becomes clear that something is seriously wrong. " lot of the things he says and does make him look like a little kid," is all Oscar will say; D ez fills in the blank with a painting of Grandpa Monty drinking the water from a flower vase. Both collaborators capture the situation's odd mixture of comedy (Grandpa Monty, a Yodalike presence in his stature and demeanor, tries to stick a key into the knot of a tree and plays basketball with a pumpkin) and tragedy. "ittle by little, he seems to forget which words to use," Oscar says. Oscar helps Grandpa Monty by tutoring him in the subjects he's studying in school, demonstrating that there's a place for a child to contribute. Proof that an issue book doesn't have to be prissy. Ages 7 9.
