Details

Subject(s)

• Entertainers—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Grandfathers—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Ill

• Gammell, Stephen [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Summary note

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer. In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa clearly exudes the message that you're only as old as you feel, but the children respond--as will readers--to the nostalgia of the moment. Utterly original.

Binding note

Pub. white color-printed pictorial laminated bds., matching dust jacket and blue endpapers.

ISBN

• 0394893301
• 9780394893303
• 0394993306 (lib. bdg.)
• 9780394993300 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN

87003200

OCLC

15485512

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