It is also a story that deals with grief and the importance of sharing memories about cherished people who have passed.

So, their amazing granddaughter comes up with a clever plan to fix up the old camper and get Grandad excited to explore again. To do so, they enlist a groovy pink and white camper with a zippy blue stripe as a symbol of both the past and moving on. This picture book, in which a girl helps her grandfather embrace life again following the death of Gramps, may well aid young readers in understanding others' grief.An effective tool for teaching empathy, and the intergenerational bond at the story's center is a heartstrings puller. Her favourite pastime, however, is to snuggle up with Grandad while he shares tales of his past adventures with Gramps.

Discover a wonderful grandfather-granddaughter relationship, as a little girl hatches the perfect plan to get her Grandad adventuring again. For the hope for new adventures, and the glimpse of intergenerational kindness and understanding, this lovely book should be on every shelf. Celebrate love in all its forms, as Grandad tells his granddaughter about the adventures he used to have with Gramps. Caregivers, especially older ones, may see this book as an opportunity to talk about departed loved ones and introduce their happy memories to a younger generation-many a family will find themselves pulling out photo albums to relate their own origin stories. This is an important text in terms of the representation of LGBTQIA+ relationships and portraying different family structures.

VERDICT For the hope for new adventures, and the glimpse of intergenerational kindness and understanding, this lovely book should be on every shelf. Inspired by these tales, the narrator encourages Grandad to fix up the van, and the two take it for a road trip to the beach.

That leaves the child's role (and there is no mention of parents, or even that Grandad and Gramps had children) as brackets to the piece, only becoming an active part of the story at the end. Following this, children create expanded noun phrases to enhance their descriptive writing and use these to support them in writing poetry about an object which holds a special memory to them. Before they were Grandad and Gramps, two young men, waving a rainbow flag from their pink VW bus, were a romantic couple, traveling the world-or at least Europe-together, camping under the stars.

This debut picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Harry Woodgate won the British Book Awards Nibbie for Children's Illustrated Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, and named as an ALA Stonewall Honor Book. Still, there is a wholesome gentility to every page, of enjoying every minute, even in memory, of growing sweet cherries in the garden, and of filling a home with mementos and stories. Waterstones Children’s Book Award Winner and British Book Awards Nibbies Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year 2023! Children create labels for the items, then explore the concept of memories by thinking about how things special to them hold memories and form connections to times and events in our lives. A long time ago, Grandad and Gramps spent many happy days travelling the world together in a camper van.