Come back, granny

Marta loved her granny very much. She liked her unusual eyes – grey with speckles, dimples on her cheeks and funny slightly upturned nose. Marta was never bored with her granny: they played football, hide-and-seek and pirates, fed birds in the park. Surprisingly, the birds were not afraid of granny at all and willingly ate from her hands. Marta and granny were always together while her parents worked all day or did important household chores. But one day it happened that granny got sick. And she died…

Martha missed her very much. Mom said that Granny was now in heaven, in paradise. Martha looked at the sky for a long time, but did not see Granny there. Dad said that Granny had become a part of nature. Martha looked at the bushes and trees, and once it even seemed to her that she saw Granny's face among the leaves, but the wind blew and it disappeared. Martha's neighbor, an Indian boy named Rajan, insisted that Granny's soul had moved into some animal or bird. And Martha began to look more closely at the animals in the zoo, but she did not recognize Granny in them.

The years passed, Martha grew up, but she continued to remember her grandmother often. When Martha became an adult, she got married and had a daughter, whom they named Rose. Rose looked like any other normal baby, but over time, Martha began to notice something about her. By the age of three, Rose's eyes had become speckled gray, dimples appeared on her cheeks, and the tip of her nose looked up in a funny way. At the age of five, the first freckles appeared on her face. The little girl loved to play pirates with Martha and feed the birds in the park - surprisingly, the birds were not afraid of her at all. Rose definitely reminded me more and more of someone...

This book can help children cope with the loss of a loved one. It will also help parents discuss the difficult topic of death with their child.

Recommended reader age: 3+

Author: Sue Limb
Artist: Mabir Gregoire
Translation: Daria Sokolova
Number of pages: 28
Publisher: Melik-Pashayev
Cover type: Softcover
Dimensions: 280 × 215 × 5 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00041-566-5