Children’s Books for Every Occasion: Losing a Grandparent
My mom and dad are coming to visit tomorrow and my toddler can’t wait. I didn’t have a close relationship with my own grandparents so I don’t know how it feels to be so excited about seeing grandma and grandpa. We’re lucky that he feels so loved.
The Hickory Chair tells the story of Louis, a boy who’s been blind since birth, and his beloved grandmother.
From the Amazon.com review:
Blind since birth, Louis uses all his senses to love his grandmother and feel her love for him. When she dies and Louis seems to have been forgotten in the family treasure hunt Gran arranged in lieu of a will, he must hold on to his knowledge of her love for him and his memories of her smell–”lilacs, with a whiff of bleach”–and her “molasses voice” to know he could never have been overlooked. It is a lifetime later, when Louis is a grandfather himself, that his conviction is affirmed by his “favorite youngest grandchild’s” discovery in Gran’s much-loved hickory chair.
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