A rhyming story about Grandpa Green’s adventures, which will capture the imagination of all the family. Just you wait and see what he gets up to...

When the canal breaks close to their home, Grandma and Grandpa Green are faced with a dangerous flood. Grandma grabs onto the first thing she sees: a mattress. Will the mattress take her to safety, and can Grandpa row his boat to rescue her? Be sure to look for some other Grandma and Grandpa Green adventures!

Originally, Grandpa's Book was written as an attempt to leave a legacy for his children and grandchildren. The stories were just to good to keep inside the family unit and the book(s) were soon passed around to friends. Shortly, strangers were calling for copies, many demanding that the book be published, so that they too might own a copy. Comments from some delighted readers "I couldn't put the book down. My wife couldn't understand why I wouldn't come to bed. She read the book and said that she absolutely understands why. She remarked that she laughed at the punch lines and eagerly anticipated the next scrape that Grandpa Ray might get into." "Grandpa Ray is a master storyteller!" "Pacing and cadence are effectively employed to make readers laugh at the punch lines." "Well-written, fun and easy-to-read, Grandp's memoir brims with love, humor and warmth. He masterfully employs the techniques of anecdotes to create an invaluable legacy for his children." "Grandpa Ray fill his personal memoir with amusing, instructive, and loving anecdotes as a legacy for his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren."

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes this Caldecott Honor Book, a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come. This title has Common Core connections. Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011. One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.

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