A Grand Celebration

by Hittleman, Carol G.

• ISBN13: 9781563979019
• ISBN10: 1563979012
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Wordsong

Summary

Anthologists Carol Hittleman and Daniel Hittleman celebrate "all kinds of grands" in this affectionate collection of twenty-six poems for young readers. Poets Arnold Adoff, Myra Cohn Livingston, Jack Prelutsky, Lucille Clifton, Barbara Juster Esbensen, and others pay loving tribute to grandmothers and grandfathers and to the memories of them that grandchildren hold dear. Kay Life's portraits depict grandparents' humor, vitality, and strength.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(1)
Picturing Grandparents
All Kinds of Grands	6	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Grandmom	7	(1)
Sheree Fitch
Grandfathers Are to Love	8	(2)
Lois Wyse
Old Photograph Album: Grandfather	10	(1)
Barbara Juster Esbensen
As Soon as She Is Up	11	(1)
Arnold Adoff
Oma was sixty-three when I was born---	12	(1)
Gerald Dumas
grandpa in march	12	(1)
Arnold Adoff
From Her Office	13	(1)
R. H. Marks
Sharing with Grandparents
Making Pies with Grandfather	14	(1)
Donald Graves
Basket	15	(1)
Myra Cohn Livingston
Pineapple Surprise	16	(1)
Nikki Grimes
Storyteller Nana	17	(1)
Monica Gunning
Grandpa	18	(1)
Ralph Fletcher
My Grandma	19	(1)
Catherine McCafferty
Laughing with Grandparents
Grandpa Dropped His Glasses	20	(1)
Leroy F. Jackson
What Grandma Says	21	(1)
B. J. Lee
My Wise Old Grandpapa	22	(2)
Wilbur G. Howcroft
Grandpa McWheeze	24	(1)
Jack Prelutsky
Hurry Grandma Hurry	25	(1)
Jack Prelutsky
Remembering Grandparents
remembering	26	(1)
Nikki Grimes
Under the Rainbow	26	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Lineage	27	(1)
Margaret Walker
Grandmother	28	(2)
Shonto Begay
When	30	(1)
Lee Bennett Hopkins
My Grandma's Songs	31	(1)
Francisco X. Alarcon
I look at this picture of that old man	32
Gerald Dumas