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Children's & YAApril 2021Elder flute of grandfather Vsevid
by Dara Kornii
This good fairy tale is about the all-powerful grandfather Vsevid, who lives in the Wildwood, in an elder hut, plays on a magical elder flute and is friends with sisters Spring, Autumn, Winter and Summer. One snowy winter day, someone plucked grandfather's elder flute, and everything got confused in the Wildwood - strawberries in the middle of the frost, skeins of cranes in the winter sky, blooming lilies on the lawn, where a moment ago was snow. In addition, time stopped in the hourglass of the world. How to fix it? Who is this mysterious thief? And why he needs grandfather Vsevid's magic flute?
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Children's & YAGrandpa and the Flying Dog
by Anna Lott/Anja Grote
Carla had a best friend – a friend with whom she could spend the loveliest afternoons. These were perfect Grandpa-Carla afternoons. But now Grandpa is gone. But Carla waits for him. One day she finds a big dog on the same bench where her grandfather always waited for her. Suddenly she feels very close to him again. Carla can even go flying on Grandpa’s back. But is it really Grandpa? Or just a big dog?
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A Sugar Figure for Grandpa
by Pi Kou, Duzi Dudu
"Rat-a-tat, a little drum turns like a windmill faster and faster. Puff-a-puff, an old man blows a sugar figure harder and harder." As soon as Little Douzi’s grandpa shouts out, the lane is alive with kids coming out. With the passage of time, Litte Douzi grows up, while Grandpa gets old and sick. Little Douzi and Dad carries Grandpa's sugar load, and blows, kneads, pulls and cuts the sugar syrup. Then a sweet sugar figure warms the bleak autumn, cold winter and the sick Grandpa. Love will finally overcome all difficulties.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2019My Grandfather Was the Best Dancer
by Kateryna Babkina
“My Grandfather Was the Best Dancer” is a series of short stories following the family histories of five protagonists who met on their first day of school in the first year of Ukraine’s independence and became lifelong friends. These family histories take the reader through the events of the 1920s in Kharkiv, the repression of the Les Kurbas Theater during the Great Terror, the Holodomor (the man-made genocidal famine of 1932–33), World War II, the 1990s, several waves of emigration and the war in Donbas. First and foremost, this is a book about accepting the past. It describes how events and circumstances affect us, whether consciously or unconsciously. It addresses continuity and ties between generations, yearning for love and acceptance, and loneliness as the product of or reason behind our choices. It deals with losses both conscious and unconscious, justified and pointless. Most importantly, it stresses that no matter how lonely, outcast or broken you feel, you can survive and live because, notwithstanding, there is always a chance to attain happiness at last.
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Children's & YAThe Snowby. A Winter Wonder for Ole
by Lissa Lehmenkühler/Heidi Förster
This year, Ole is not looking forward at all to winter. He doesn’t like his new home and he really hates his new school. Especially because Rocco and his gang are making his life a misery. What he would like best of all is simply to run away and go to his grandfather Ottokar in Canada. But what’s this? Suddenly there’s a knock at Ole’s window and floating into the room comes – “Hellole, Ole” – a real live Snowby! And with a Snowby at Ole’s side, there can only be a wonderfully magic, wildly snowflaky winter! But when the Snowby himself is in danger, Ole must work wonders if he is to come to the rescue. Luckily he’s made some new friends he can rely on.
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PsychologyGrandpa's Star
A Consolation Book for Children and Parents
by Julia Weißflog, Steffen Ortmüller, Daniel Wende
Saying goodbye to a loved one is always hard. Jon, the little hero of this story, serves as an example of how children can deal with the pain of loss. When Jon’s grandfather dies, he becomes a star. Jon decides to look for his grandfather’s star to say goodbye, and begins a journey through space and through his own grief. He soon realises that this is no easy search. His feelings alternates between disappointment, euphoria, anger, and sadness. Fortunately, the man on the moon explains to the little astronaut the special nature and uniqueness of the stars for the relatives on earth. Only there do the stars twinkle and shine for grandchildren, children, and everyone else who misses the deceased. Jon finally understands that his grandfather is dead, but is not simply gone, because in his memory, in his thoughts, and in the starry sky his grandfather is still there and makes his star shine for everyone who thinks of him. For: • children (ages 6–12) who suffer from the fear of losing a close family member or who have lost a family member• parents, relatives• therapists
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Fiction2021The Mystery of the Glass Ball
by Maria Dadouch
Ghassan Al Ghurairi had to accompany his old grandfather to the Leewy Museum in the middle of the desert. They are attending a ceremony honoring his grandfather, who spent his entire life in service of the desert. As they head to their destination onboard an ancient train, Ghassan came across a conspiracy plotted by the criminal Aqrabawi and his bald friend— disguised as two elderly women—to poison the oasis’s water supply. In place of the ecological life in the desert, they want to make way for an international resort and take over the place. Although Ghassan doesn’t mean to confront this conspiracy alone, he finds himself embroiled face-to-face with the criminals. Fortunately for him, a girl appears at his side to help. Sophia Al-Adnani from Chiparazumpia is also heading with her grandfather and his great eco-friendly invention, the glass ball, to the Leewy Museum, where her grandfather is to be honored. The two children are able to hold off the criminals initially, but not for long, as Aqrabawi and his friend soon reappear—this time deadest on revenge against the two children. Ghassan and Sophia resist in the face of intimidation and threats, and, using clever intrigue, they manage to disarm the conspirators and escape seconds before the desert guards arrive and arrest the criminals.
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The roots of lights
by Andrea Beaudoin Valenzuela
A grandfather and his granddaughter start a road trip to participate in a collector's contest. It is the time in Colombia when electricity rationing and miraculous fishing reign. With fantasy and humor, the grandfather defends his granddaughter from precariousness and abandonment. When the roles of care are reversed, the granddaughter must create new ways of sustaining the house, the body and the memory. Andrea Beaudoin constructs a two-part story to imagine with overwhelming prose the unconventional ways in which we build family. // “People, like the stars, have different forces of gravity. Ana thinks about whether hers will still be growing or will have reached its final size. Leo, over the years, has become magnetic. Around him things float and collapse like everyday meteorites. A limitless force grows in concentric circles, absorbing everything in its path”.
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Children's & YA2014My Sheepdog Chiche
by Susana Aliano Casales
Chiche was a brown sheepdog that my grandfather gave my older brother for his birthday. When I was born, Chiche had already lived with us for a few years, so he was part of the family before me.
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June 2020A Little Bunny Stealing Watermelon
by Yang Yongqing
A little bunny often ran to the grandfather's melon fileld to steal watermelon. In order to stop the little bunny, the grandfather figured out an interesting way, and finally the little bunny confessed. The story is very humorous and contains the principle of tolerance. Its style continues Yang Yongqing's consistent realism, precision, and expressiveness.
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Children's & YADo As You Are Told, Baji
by Lola Shoneyin
Baji goes to Kwoi in Kaduna State to spend the weekend with Baba, his grandfather. Baba takes Baji to his farm, but soon discovers that Baji does not often do as he is told. As an eventful day on the farm comes to an end, fun-loving Baji has an interesting encounter with a stubborn donkey.
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Animal stories (Children's/YA)2022Kisa cha Kasa Wanaolengwa
by Shaleen Keshavjee - Gulam
Book 2 in SUDEF Wildlife Detective series - Swahili - In this book , Sandeep, was excited to watch turtle eggs hatch at the beach with his grandfather. Now that the turtle eggs are disappearing, he and his friends have to solve the mystery because he promised his ailing grangfather to protect the eggs until they hatch.
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Children's & YA2020A dream of birds
by Shenaz Patel, Emmanuelle Tchoukriel
On the way to school, Sara comes across a funny little house with a red roof. It is an aviary, full of colourful parakeets. She thinks about her grandfather, who loved watching birds fly free in his garden every day. Sara finds herself dreaming of an aviary with no fences and no roof… A story as free as a bird!
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The Cherry Tree
by Zhang Mudi, Wen Aining
In this picture book, the author depicts the last period of the grandfather’s life. After the grandfather moved to the “room of spring” from the “room of winter”, as he got rid of diseases and pain, a pink cherry tree grew from his body. Life continues in a gentle and good way. Children will, more or less, face parting in their lives. Through delicate poetry and brilliant pictures, this picture book turns “parting” poetic, bringing comfort to children’s souls. Though dealing with the topic of parting, it tells stories full of love and hope.
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Children's & YAThe Hole
by Evelina Daciūtė
In the book The Hole, the girl tells a story about the time when she lost her beloved grandfather. Together with her dad, the girl goes through their loss by digging a hole. A very deep hole that reaches even Africa. The place where bad feelings become lighter. This book is about loss and strength. It is a story about continuity of life and opportunity to say farewell to those we love. We can find different ways to do it. The Hole offers one of them.
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Children's & YAMissi Moppel - Detective for all Cases (2). The Floating Teapot and other Weird Wonders
by Andreas H. Schmachtl
The master detective is after a cunning thief who steals colourful, random objects like Leonardo da Vinci’s paintbrush or antique sugar bowls. During a visit to Grandpa Pots, she uncovers the secret of Ghost Island and solves the puzzle of the floating teapot in Mr Goldrand’s junk shop. Only the nasty blackmailing letters from the mysterious “Magpie” present her with a seemingly insoluble mystery. Someone is testing the powers of the great investigator to their very limit…Will she be able to crack even this case? 15 original detective stories told in masterly fashion by the Spiegel bestselling author Andreas H. Schmachtl.
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Children's & YAMarch 2017Little Lotus
by TANG Sulan
Little Lotus tells the story of the growth of a little girl named Lotus. She was born in an impoverished and backward family, where her grandfather prefers boys to girls, her mother is always busy and indifferent, and her father is often outside home during Lotus’childhood. Therefore, Lotus has grown into a sensitive and stubborn girl. However, her grandmother is a loving and wise person, who has taught Lotus the importance of kindness, tolerance and diligence. It is her grandmother who lights up Lotus’early life. Little Lotus focuses on the growth of children in China’s countryside by incorporating the author’s personal experiences, and presents different facades of a Chinese-style childhood.
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)2020Auntie Malva's Christmas Shop
by Dermanskyi Oleksandr
The townspeople do not crave a single holiday as zealously as Christmas, when the city is noisy and carefree. Everything around is filled with joyful laughter, carols, cheerful voices. And also with fabulous incense from the charming van shop of Auntie Malva. But this year, things may be different, because the creepy Ms. Mizzle and the insidious Mr. Raven have already begun to implement their sinister plan. And only little Tyshko and his faithful dog Kuchugurka can stop them. But will they be able to return the magic book to the grandfather storyteller and save Christmas? The book was created by two brilliant Ukrainian masters of pen and brush Sashko Dermanskiy and Rostyslav Popskiy.
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May 2021"Academician takes you to explore" popular science picture book: Mr. Seahorse in his head
"Academician Takes You to Explore" Popular Science Picture Book
by Song Xian, Zhang Jiamin
"Academician Takes You to Explore" is a set of popular science picture books for children aged 6-12. The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and the Beauty Science Team jointly planned this series of books. Relying on the content, through vivid stories and exquisite paintings, the scientists’ live lectures are adapted into interesting science picture books, so that young readers can appreciate the progress of cutting-edge scientific research in novel stories and pictures. This booklet mainly describes the structure and function of the brain. The story begins with the protagonist Mia and her mother visiting the grandfather in the nursing home on the Double Ninth Festival. It mainly introduces the area and function map of the brain, especially the hippocampus and its important role in our memory.
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Children's & YAA oficina do Cambeva (Cambeva's workshop)
by Lido Loschi
Cambeva's workshop is the first of four books of the collection "Presente de Vô" in partnership with Grupo Ponto de Partida. The book is a mixture of colours and elements that highlight the memory of the world, in which seekers of memories have the mission of bringing light and life to objects found in the travels of two characters: Zalém and Calunga. Cambeva is a restorer who, when the world lost its embrace, tried to reinvent it; he is the grandfather who mends dreams, forgotten things and lost emotions, to whom the seekers ask for help to fix something. In a magical universe, full of children, grandchildren, stories and memories of his lineage of restorers, when faced with this request for restoration, he makes room to bring back an emblematic figure who can no longer sing. A story about memories, care and affection...
