Grandpa Christmas: A gloriously feel-good children’s illustrated picture book with a hopeful environmental message - perfect family reading this Christmas!

Reviews

childrenofbooks

This collective awakening is only possible with a mindfulness revolution that starts with children. Rather than buying a xmas present Granddad writes a letter to his granddaughter which is put under the tree and read out loud by the family each xmas .

mellowpellow

But it tells the only story that matters this Christmas. The visual storytelling has a compelling ‘cinematographic’ pace, thanks to a great attention to lighting, characters poses and camera angles:Jim Field effortlessy transitions from Grandpa’s bright, idyllic memories to dramatic chiaroscuro when it comes to representing the fragile magnificence of nature, thus rendering the mixture of happiness and sadness that’s always present in Morpurgo's stories. It is written in a beautiful way, so that Granddads letter really is a gift, a xmas gift just like he is really with them each and every xmas. This is a beautiful story.

. •••Still, Morpurgo goes beyond environmentalism, urging us to fall back in love with Mother Earth.