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What Do You Call Your Grandpa?

By Ashleigh Barton
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What Do You Call Your Grandpa? by Ashleigh Barton is a delightful children's book that explores the diverse names children use for their grandfathers around the world. Through charming illustrations and rhyming text, the book celebrates cultural diversity and familial love, showing that no matter what we call them, grandpas hold a special place in our hearts.
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You might enjoy this delightful children's book if you love exploring the diverse expressions of love and family around the world. With a charming focus on the different names children use for their grandfathers across cultures, it combines engaging illustrations and playful text that can enrich and inspire conversations about family traditions and heritage.

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An inclusive picture book for grandparents everywhere.

A 2021 Children's Book Council Notable Book.


In every country around the world are grandpas short and tall.

Though they go by different names, we love them one and all.

From brilliant new talents Ashleigh Barton and Martina Heiduczek, comes a charming and heart-warming book that celebrates the many different ways we say grandpa.

What Do You Call Your Grandpa? is a love letter to grandfathers and families from every corner of the globe.

PRAISE

'A beautiful gift book and one to share with all the family, from the youngest readers to grandparents and great-grandparents.' - Kids' Book Review

'Together Barton and Heiduczek have produced a delightful picture book celebrating grandfathers from every corner of the globe. What Do You Call Your Grandpa? is a fabulous choice for school or home and is one that will be sure to delight.' - Dark Matter Zine

'What Do You Call Your Grandpa? celebrates cultural diversity, individuality, families, and love. The book depicts the special bond grandfathers share with their grandchildren while highlighting the fact that every grandpa and relationship is unique.' - Buzz Words

'With this debut book, Ashleigh Barton provides a heartwarming depiction of child-grandfather relationships around the world ... This is a beautiful and important book for children living in our culturally diverse country.' - ReadPlus

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780733340864

Publisher: ABC Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 July 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: ABC Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Martina Heiduczek

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 251.0mm

Height: 251.0mm

Weight: 365g

Pages: 32

Collections

Ashleigh Barton Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational

About the Author

As a child, Ashleigh Barton would borrow ten library books at a time and decided, at precisely age six, that she wanted to be a writer. Several years, a law degree and a couple of full-time jobs later, Ashleigh has finally made her six-year-old self proud. Now the author of the picture books What Do You Call Your Grandpa?, What Do You Call Your Grandma? and What Do You Do To Celebrate?, Ashleigh loves writing stories for children of all ages. She also works as a freelance copywriter, and prior to this worked in marketing and publicity for children's books at a major publisher, running campaigns for internationally renowned authors and illustrators. Ashleigh lives in Sydney with her husband, dog, and three little bookworms. Martina grew up in a small village on the Baltic Sea in Germany. Here you could find her mostly galloping through the forests with flying piggy tails on her Shetland pony, drawing or reading. These days she is an illustrator and graphic designer and lives in Australia. Martina's illustrations are a mixture of digital and traditional media. With a passion for colour and textures she works with layers of scanned materials, coloured pencils, watercolour and gouache. Her works are inspired by nature, people, places, and the emotionally moving and silly things she sees out there ... Magic is everywhere!

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