It's what I'm learning to do more and more as we homeschool along. The books on our list have been sourced in, well over, 20 years of me buying , trading, and fossicking through many used book sales so please just ignore the titles you can't get or source more easily - using what one can find or already has makes life so much more relaxed. While we make good use of our local library I prefer to use what we have off our own shelves first. Gentle, patient, kind Grandma energetic, single-minded Grandpa.We often get asked for the titles of the New Zealand based literature and referencing books we are using during our home educating journey so we typed up the pdf, linked below, as a help - hopefully - for others.
These stories are so comforting and gentle that the reader adopts these grandparents as their own. These are some of the themes, narrated with humour and love. Grandpa just knows he has the perfect beach shorts somewhere, and he turns the house upside to find them.
Grandpa is off to clear out the shed, but the things he finds prompt so many jobs that his original mission may never be completed. On Grandpa's quest to find a new cardigan, footsore and disheartened, he happens upon the perfect cardy in the op-shop and yes, it is the one that Grandma darned and re-buttoned and sent there. Grandma is right, of course, and Grandpa knows it, setting them up for an excellent punchline and the next story, with Grandma's practical eye subsequently landing on Grandpa's cardigan.Īnd so we continue with Grandpa's Cardigan, Grandpa's Shorts, Grandpa's Shed and Grandpa's Cat, all featuring this lovely couple and their everyday life. With escalating repetition, we hear that the slippers are going to fall to bits, that the stitching has come undone, the fluff has worn off and other heinous slipper crimes - but Grandpa continues to declare that's the way he likes them. We begin with Grandpa's Slippers, in which there is an epic marital struggle between practical Grandma and stubborn Grandpa as they engage in gentle combat over his tatty, worn slippers. How lucky we are then, that there is now Grandpa's Storybook Collection, with all five Grandpa stories compiled in one book. The tale of an archetypal Grandpa in scratty old cardigan and slippers pottering about the house and garden has been reassuringly familiar to many young readers. One of the most iconic books for children in Aotearoa New Zealand has to be Grandpa's Slippers, by Joy Watson.
Grandpa's Storybook Collection, by Joy Watson and Wendy Hodder.
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