Grandad's Camper: A picture book for children that celebrates LGBTQIA+ families

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This beautiful picture book honors love and reminds us not only to remember those we have lost, but to celebrate them. Every summer, the narrator of this heart-warming tale goes to stay with her grandad in his pretty old cottage by the sea. Immediately on opening the book you are greeted with the most breathtaking bucolic scene across the endpapers as Grandad and Gramps drive rambling hills in their pink camper van. The little girl has an idea and together they tend to the camper van and take it to the beach, just like Gramps would have wanted.

VERDICT For the hope for new adventures, and the glimpse of intergenerational kindness and understanding, this lovely book should be on every shelf. This is a beautiful, sweet, touching and honest story of a tender conversation between a grandad and granddaughter. This debut picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Harry Woodgate won the British Book Awards Nibbie for Children's Illustrated Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, and named as an ALA Stonewall Honor Book. They will then send a postcard home from Grandad and Gramps on their beach adventure before planning, drafting and editing a sequel for the book where Grandad and the little girl head off on their own campervan adventure.Caregivers, especially older ones, may see this book as an opportunity to talk about departed loved ones and introduce their happy memories to a younger generation-many a family will find themselves pulling out photo albums to relate their own origin stories. I purchased this book for my ten year old girls who have outgrown picture books a bit but the stunning illustrations inspired them as little artist and they absolutely loved the story an the characters.

To do so, they enlist a groovy pink and white camper with a zippy blue stripe as a symbol of both the past and moving on.It's so important that little ones grow up and see their type of family set-up reflected in the books you share with them.