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Willy's Silly Grandma
Willy doesn't believe in any of his grandmother's superstitions, until he ventures down by the Big Swamp one dark night and comes to realize how smart Grandma is
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32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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Cynthia C. DeFelice
35 books120 followersCynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors.
Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.” Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian.
When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can’t pick just one answer: “I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new.” Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.
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Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than the rare occasions when we were given a quarter and turned loose at the penny-candy store on the boardwalk.” Cynthia has worked as a bookseller, a barn painter, a storyteller, and a school librarian.
When asked what she loves best about being an author, she can’t pick just one answer: “I love the feeling of being caught up in the lives of the characters I am writing about. I enjoy the challenge of trying to write as honestly as I can, and I find enormous satisfaction in hearing from readers that something I wrote touched them, delighted them, made them shiver with fear or shake with laughter, or think about something new.” Cynthia and her husband live in Geneva, New York.
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January 24, 2013
Willy's Silly Grandma
Age group: 6-9
Cynthia DeFelice
This story is about a little boy that has a very superstitious grandmother and she tells him everything that he shouldn't do. Throughout the story he does things like cut his toe nails on a Sunday and she tells him that its "Bad luck." He tries to ask his dad why she is so silly but all he tells him is that she knows what she knows. At the end of the book the boy goes walking along the swamp alone at night and he gets scared, right after his grandma told him not to because he would be frightend. I found this story quite funny because I know a lot of people that are superstitious and have there little rituals in order to reverse the affect. Some of the grandma's superstitions were a bit overboard but that is what many people were raised to believe back in the day. I ask some of my friend's parents and grandparents remedies to cure things and they are funny but sometimes come true.
Age group: 6-9
Cynthia DeFelice
This story is about a little boy that has a very superstitious grandmother and she tells him everything that he shouldn't do. Throughout the story he does things like cut his toe nails on a Sunday and she tells him that its "Bad luck." He tries to ask his dad why she is so silly but all he tells him is that she knows what she knows. At the end of the book the boy goes walking along the swamp alone at night and he gets scared, right after his grandma told him not to because he would be frightend. I found this story quite funny because I know a lot of people that are superstitious and have there little rituals in order to reverse the affect. Some of the grandma's superstitions were a bit overboard but that is what many people were raised to believe back in the day. I ask some of my friend's parents and grandparents remedies to cure things and they are funny but sometimes come true.
January 22, 2012
Love the use of italics and spacing to change the tone of the story. The words get larger the scarier the story gets! Exciting verbs are in all caps. This would be a wonderful story to explore with children how we make meaning from space and also the various ways authors can use font to create a certain sense. It'd be a great recommendation for people who love a little fright!
November 21, 2016
This book is almost about the importance of skepticism and experimentation to overcome specious beliefs while still being respectful to irrational people, but the lesson gets a little muddled in the last scenario.
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