Tag: Grandmothers

Africa South of the Sahara

Ghana
Cover for Grandma's List featuring an illustration of a young girl in a patterned dress runnng through a colorful market with people looking at her with curiosity and a piece of paper in her hand. The ground is a dusty orange and the buildings in the background are pink and yellow.

Grandma's List

Portia Dery

Toby Newsome (Illustrator)

Grandma’s List. Portia Dery. Illustrated by Toby Newsome. Windmill Books, 2021. Originally published by African Bureau Stories,Ghana, 2017. ISBN 9781499486322. 32 p. (Ages 5-7). Picture book.

India

Cover for Ammachi's Glasses featuring an illustration of a grandma with large golden earrings on and her eyes closed with her hands in front of her who is tripping over a dog while a cat laughs. A kid in the background looks on in shock. The cover's background is a textured sage green and the title is displayed in bright red with an illustration of a crow above it.

Ammachi's Glasses

Priya Kurian

Ammachi’s Glasses. Priya Kurian. Tulika Books, 2017. ISBN 9789350469088. 28 p. (Ages 0 and up). Picture book.

Korea

Cover for My GrandMom featuring a pencil or crayon illustration of a grandma, grandchild, and cat all doing the same joyful pose with their hands outstretched and their bodies in a C shape. There are fireworks drawn around and behind them.

My GrandMom

Gee-eun Lee

Sophie Bowman (Translator)

My GrandMom. Gee-eun Lee. Translated by Sophie Bowman. Amazon Crossing Kids, 2022. Originally published as Halmeoni eomma in Korean by Woongjin Thinkbig Co. LTD, in South Korea, in 2016. ISBN 9781662508257. 40 p. (Ages 3-7). Picture book.

China & Taiwan

China
Cover of Dragonfly Eyes featuring an illustration of tree branches with red flowers in the foreground and a building inn the background in blue. The title is in large purple letters within a lighter purple cloud.

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Dragonfly Eyes. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022. Originally published in China by by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2021. ISBN 9781536200188. 384 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

Taiwan
Cover of Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village featuring an illustration of a small child sitting at a table near a window with trinkets on the sill on a chair with a backpack slung over the back. The illustration is in a green frame and surrounded by a pattern of green clovers.

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village

Fang Suzhen

Huang Xiumin (Translator)

Sonja Danowski

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village. Fang Suzhen. Translated by Huang Xiumin. Illustrated by Sonja Danowski. NorthSouth Books, 2015. Originally published in China by China Children’s Press and Publication Group. ISBN 9780735842168. 48 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

The Middle East & North Africa

Qatar
Cover for Mah and Me featuring an illustration of an older woman in a hijab-like shawl and patterned dress and what appears to be her grandson in overalls walking arm in arm in a rural setting.

Mah and Me

Ibtihaj Al-Harthi

Mah and Me. Ibtihaj Al-Harthi. Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2019. Originally published as أنا وماه in Arabic by Bloomsbury, in 2015, in Qatar. ISBN 9789927119675. 32 p. (Ages 4 and up). Picture book.

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