Orange Cheeks

by Jay O'Callahan, Patricia Raine (Illustrator)

Four-year-old Willie loves visiting his Grandma, but his mother has warned him -- if he gets into trouble again, there'll be no more overnight visits for an entire year. Planning to be very, very good, Willie (in the way of all four year olds), actually gets into yet another situation he can't get out of -- but it's Grandma to the rescue! A wonderful story about a boy's relationship with his beloved grandmother, and about the love we feel for the special people in our lives.

Genres: Picture Books

40 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Jay O'Callahan is a prominent American storyteller for people of all ages. He has performed at numerous national and international storytelling festivals, in theaters worldwide, and on the radio. He performs almost exclusively material of his own authorship. He has recorded many of his oral stories and has written picture books based on several of his tales. O'Callahan is best known for his large-scale oral stories that present the texture of a culture and a time in history through the perceptions of a central narrative character.

O'Callahan's storytelling style is generally quiet and understated. His performances do not use props, sets, costumes, dramatic movement or instrumental music. He has a spellbinding ability to embody through the cadence of words his central characters (young and old, male and female), evoking soundscapes of seemingly ordinary life, with something epic and magical flickering just around the edges.

Reviews

[Carolyn Fickle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book. Used with parenting, grandparents.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very sweet story about the enduring power of a loving grandparent

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My family listened to this as an audio recording (before that was a thing you could do), when I was a kid. Very quotable. Very sweet.