Island Magic - Hardcover
When Grandad sells his farm in order to move to Grosse Ile with the family, he is disappointed with his new surroundings until David makes an effort to take him around and show him the many beauties and wonders of his new community.
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Martha Bennett Stiles has written a number of books for young readers, including Sarah the Dragon Lady, The Star in the Forest, Dougal Looks for Birds, The Strange House at Newburyport, and Darkness Over the Land, an ALA Notable Book. Mrs. Stiles lived for a number of years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before moving to her present home in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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This peaceful yet affecting story from Stiles recounts a boy's efforts to get his grandfather to feel at home when he comes to live with the boy's family. The boy remembers all the fine times he had at his grandfather's dairy farmhow the two of them would walk to the barn and the grandfather would regale him with interesting tidbitsand he wants his grandfather to feel the same excitement and pleasure in his new home, an island in the Detroit River. But the grandfather is taciturn in his displacement, full of memories and the pang of time's passage. The boy is a masterful psychological strategist, gently nudging his grandfather toward joy in his new surroundings, yet never demanding a commitment. Gradually, quietly, as befits San Souci's elegant winter-spare landscapes, the grandfather discovers a new lifeoften through the boy's associating various elements of the island with the dairy farm. It is a subtle drift, and all the better for it, as the boy, the grandfather, and the island home meld into a give-and-take that marks a fruitful, abiding relationship. This affectionate story would make an excellent companion to Douglas Wood's Grandad's Prayers of the Earth (see review, below) (Picture book. 5-8) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0689805888
- ISBN 13 9780689805882
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
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