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Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay. Usually it's the grandparent who takes the grandchild out. But here roles are reversed in a heartwarming story about a little girl who takes her grandmother to the museum for her first visit, allowing them to share something very special together. Written by Lois Wyse, the bestselling author of Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother , with her ten-year-old granddaughter, Molly Rose Goldman, How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum is a charming story of an adventurous little girl and her willing and eager grandmother, and the things they discover during a museum outing together. They visit Apatosaurus, whose bones are even older than Grandma's, and put on their pretend hiking boots for a trek to the Arctic. They imagine elephants trumpeting in the African Hall and travel through time to the Ice Age. How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum mixes photographs with Marie-Louise Gay's whimsical illustrations for a realistic view of the museum, and includes two pages of additional information about the exhibits. But most of all, it's about that very special relationship between grandparent and grandchild, and how the young can often lead grown-ups to the joy of unexpected insight.
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By the author of Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother and other books, with over 4.5 million copies in print. For children ages 5-8.
26,000 copies in print.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
PreS-Gr 2-An unnamed narrator takes her grandmother through a natural history museum while acting as a knowledgeable guide. At pauses in front of dinosaurs, animal dioramas, the Hall of Ocean Life, a meteorite, and other exhibits, the girl provides facts ("It's called a goliath beetle. It's four inches long, and its wings are bigger than those of a sparrow") while the grandmother is appropriately impressed and unhurried. Cuts from full-color photographs are integrated into the line-and-watercolor-tinted cartoons of squat, primarily preschool-sized children and adults enjoying the museum. Grandma is depicted almost entirely in profile, a cheerful, casual woman in a dress with a strange tail-like billow to her skirt, who is refreshingly ready to listen and enjoy her companion. Humorous exchanges and asides suggest the mutual respect and love between the two. Peripheral endnotes about each stop add little information to the story. A friendly introduction to natural-history museums.-Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Wyse (whose books for adults include Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother) teams up with her granddaughter for this energetic museum tour. Young Molly acts as an amiable guide, showing her grandmother around the American Museum of Natural History and spouting snippets of information on dinosaurs, African animals, underwater creatures, bugs and the Ice Age. While the text effectively mimics a child's varied interests, its haphazard quality sometimes results in confusion. For example, when the pair heads to Africa, the text reads, "We took a shortcut through Asia and turned left at Central America. Soon we were surrounded by antelopes and monkeys and cheetahs"; some readers may be confused about which continent they're visiting. However, Molly's concluding notes clear up most of these questions and also expand on some of her sketchier explanations of the museum's artifacts. Gay's art cleverly incorporates photos of museum objects (dinosaur bones, animals in diorama settings) into brightly hued, lighthearted cartoon art. The warm rapport between granddaughter and Grandma make the field trip immediately accessible. Ages 5-8. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
When Molly takes her grandmother to the Museum of Natural History, they take in the Dinosaur Hall, dioramas of wildlife, and the Hall of Ocean Life. Watercolors incorporate photographs from the actual New York museum so that the reader gets a you-are-there perspective of the interior. But Molly's over-informed dialogue (talk about a walking encyclopedia!) and Grandma's gung-ho attitude will make those perceptive of the thinly veiled didacticism wish they'd stayed home. From HORN BOOK Spring 1999, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 6^-8. Predictably (and with the help of her granddaughter Molly Rose), the author of Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother (1989), Grandchildren Are So Much Fun, I Should Have Had Them First (1992), and You Wouldn't Believe What My Grandchild Did (1994) leans heavily on the intergenerational aspect of this outing to New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Discovering that her otherwise well-traveled grandma has never been there, the young narrator reverses their usual roles, introducing dinosaurs and dioramas and displays of fish, rocks, and insects , and then finishing with a trip to the gift shop. The child shares knowledge gained on previous visits in a brief, dialogue-heavy text ("`I love the purple one,' Grandma said. `That's an amethyst geode,' I told her"). The illustrations, like those in Weitzman's You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum [BKL N 15 98], are made with clipped color photos of actual museum exhibits inset into sprightly ink-and-wash cartoons. The effect is a bit precious, but Wyse closes with additional descriptions of the wonders her characters view. This could be read in preparation for a trip to any large natural-history museum. Children may be as strongly impressed by the evident pleasure that the two visitors take in each other's company as by the setting. That feeling of intimacy earns this a place alongside Aliki's standard-setting My Visit to the Dinosaurs (rev. ed., 1985). --John Peters