From School Library Journal
PreS–Grandpa, a bespectacled wrinkly raisin, and his grandson, a plump round grape, share a day at the park. Similar to the authors
The Day the Dog Dressed Like Dad (Bloomsbury, 2004), this title makes short observations on each page, such as Grandpa teaches me about lifes ups and downs; the accompanying graphic shows the duo on a seesaw. Purple, green, blue, and orange dominate the unappealing color scheme in the old-fashioned-looking illustrations. This slight title wont attract a wide audience, and, read once, is unlikely to be requested a second time.
–Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PreS. Accompanied by a brief, easy-to-read text, bright cartoon pictures show a kid as a bouncy, green grape and Grandpa as a big, purple, bespectacled raisin. The two make a good team. Grandpa Raisin has a gazillion stories (to go along with his gazillion wrinkles), and Kid Grape is a good listener. There's some conflict between the two ("Grandpa's a good yeller"), but they have fun, even on the seesaw ("Grandpa teaches me about life's ups and downs"). Like the words, the pictures show not only the sweetness but also the cheeky mischief ("I stop to smell my armpits"). Loving without being mushy, this book will be fun for sharing across generations.
Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
