What's Happening to Grandpa?简介，目录书摘

2019-11-15 14:18 来源：京东作者：京东

编辑推荐:Celebrity journalist Maria Shriver focuses her gentle attention on a serious and sensitive topic in this picture book designed to help children understand the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Having collaborated on previous bestsellers -- What's Heaven? and What's Wrong with Timmy? -- Shriver and illustrator Sandra Spiegel team up once again for this heartwarming story about a young girl named Kate and her loving family. When her normally upbeat grandpa becomes irritable and begins forgetting things, Kate wonders aloud if this is more than just old age. A frank discussion with her mother reveals that Grandpa has a difficult illness that nobody understands; the only thing to do, says Mom, is to "support Grandma and just keep on loving and respecting Grandpa the way we always have." Understandably, Kate has many more questions, and after a talk with her school friends, she comes up with a special plan to help Grandpa keep his memories alive. Shriver gives young readers a hopeful perspective that parents sometimes have trouble providing. She also supplies a thorough list of resources for families affected by Alzheimer's disease, including web site addresses and phone numbers. For those dealing with this difficult and debilitating illness and for children in need of comfort and reassurance, What's Happening to Grandpa? is a compassionate, worthwhile read.

内容简介:Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling - but lately he's been repeating the same stories again and again. One day, he even forgets Kate's name. Her mother's patient explanations open Kate's eyes to what so many of the elderly must confront: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of memory loss. Determined to support her grandfather, Kate explores ways to help him - and herself - cope by creating a photo album of their times together, memories that will remain in their hearts forever.

作者简介:Maria Shriver is one of television's most respected anchorwomen, the recipient of television awards, and the bestselling author of What's Heaven?, What's Wrong with Timmy?, and Ten Things I Wish I Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World. She and her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger have four children.Sandra Speidel has won awards from the San Francisco and New York Society of Illustators, and most recently, from the Pastel Society of the West Coast. She illustrated What's Heaven?, What's Wrong with Timmy?, and a dozen other children's books.