One, Two, Grandma Loves You
A Board Book
- Publisher
- Abrams Appleseed
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2025
- Category
- NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Emotions & Feelings, Stories in Verse, Counting & Numbers, Poetry (see also Stories in Verse), Multigenerational
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Board book
- ISBN
- 9781419742194
- Publish Date
- Mar 2025
- List Price
- $11.99
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Where to buy it
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 3 to 5
- Grade: p to k
Description
From acclaimed creators Shelly Becker and Dan Yaccarino comes this joyful board book about a girl and her grandmother as they plan the perfect visit together
One, two, Grandma loves you. / Three, four, visit more.
Five, six, precious pics. / Seven, eight, mark the date.
This joyful rhyming board book is a tender love letter between every grandchild and grandmother who live far apart. Dan Yaccarino’s enchanting illustrations and Shelly Becker’s jaunty text—based on the beloved nursery rhyme “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”—carry a reminder that no matter how far away Grandma may be, her love is always with you.
Publishers Weekly praised the hardcover edition of this book: “the duo’s intergenerational affection is portrayed as effortless, effusive, and unconditional. A wonderful celebration of reunions.” And in a starred review, School Library Journal called it “a pure, cadenced classic, where the clues to good times past and present add up to a generous look at the special bonds of an extended family.”
About the authors
Shelly Becker is the author of One, Two, Grandma Loves You, which School Library Journal called “a pure, cadenced classic” in a starred review. Her other books include Even Superheroes Get Scared, Even Superheroes Make Mistakes, Even Superheroes Have Bad Days (a 2018 Blue Spruce Award Nominee that Kirkus Reviews called “an action-packed romp”), and Mine! Mine! Mine!, which has been included on many Top Five and Top Ten lists of books that teach the concept of sharing. Becker lives in Toronto, far away from her three wonderful grandchildren, who live in New Jersey. When they can’t be together in person, they keep in touch by speaking on the phone and sending plenty of pictures and videos.
Editorial Reviews
"Becker and Yaccarino show how Grandma and grandchild keep in touch while apart, and then a culminating scene shows them reuniting for another visit... There’s lots to love here indeed."
Kirkus Reviews
**STARRED REVIEW**
"Why does it ever have to end? The details in the illustrations will have children poring over the pages, where the clues to good times past and present add up to a generous look at the special bonds of an extended family."
School Library Journal
"Grandma’s chic house is a thoroughly imagined home-away-from-home... The duo’s intergenerational affection is portrayed as effortless, effusive, and unconditional. A wonderful celebration of reunions that’s especially meaningful after the pandemic’s long drought."
Publishers Weekly
