Books like Just Grandma and Me
By Mercer Mayer
For the kid who thinks a day with Grandma is its own kind of adventure, this one gets the small triumphs and small disasters of a beach day just right. Warm, gently funny, sun-soaked and unhurried.
A joyful board book lists eleven reasons a mom is amazing — braver than a deep-sea explorer, sillier than a band of bananas — before telling her littlest fan they're magical too.
An eight-year-old girl and her family pack up the car and skip an entire term of school to camp their way around Australia, meeting people and places along the road.
A little girl flies with her family all the way to Holland to visit her grandparents, but somewhere along the journey, her beloved Knuffle Bunny goes missing again.
A little girl and her daddy spend a day at the beach, facing small mishaps — a lost shoe, a ball drifting out to sea, a melting ice-cream cone — that he patiently fixes, one by one.
A small boy runs, jumps, and makes a mess through page after page of trouble, hearing one word from his mom again and again — until he finally gets the hug he needed all along.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A spirited older woman and her dog pack up their rattlebang car and drive province by province across Canada, discovering something special in each one, on their way to visit her sister in Newfoundland.
A joyful look at the natural world welcoming a new baby, as the moon pulls the tides, rain falls, and word of the coming birth spreads from animal to animal across the whole earth.
A little girl longs to play with the moon, so her father sets off with a very long ladder to bring it down to her — however small he must wait for it to become.
A girl takes an evening motorcycle ride with her papi through their neighborhood, watching familiar streets and faces even as the community changes around her.
A newly hatched bird tumbles from his nest and sets off alone to find his mother, asking a kitten, a hen, a dog, and even a giant machine called a Snort if they're the one he's looking for.
Two brothers spend an evening fishing with their mama, each one asking who's better at digging worms, rowing, and catching fish — and, at bedtime, who she loves the most.
