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Waterstones Children’s Book Award Winner and British Book Awards Nibbies Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year 2023! Celebrate love in all its forms, as Grandad tells his granddaughter about the adventures he used to have with Gramps. A long time ago, Grandad and Gramps spent many happy days travelling the world together in a camper van. But now Gramps isn’t around any more, Grandad doesn’t feel much like having adventures. As she listens to his wonderful stories, Grandad’s granddaughter has an idea to cheer him up… A perfect story for Grandad on Father’s Day. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021! ‘A colour-flooded riot of memory… a poignant sense of intergenerational love and grief made manageable makes this beautiful debut stand out’ GUARDIAN ‘A
glowingly colourful journey of remembered joy, managed grief and renewed delight in living’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Waterstones Children’s Book Award Winner & British Book Awards Nibbies Children’s Illustrated Book of the Year 2023! Celebrate love in all its forms, as Grandad tells his granddaughter about the adventures he used to have with Gramps. A long time ago, Grandad & Gramps spent many happy days travelling the world together in a camper van. But now Gramps isn’t around any more, Grandad doesn’t feel much like having adventures. As she listens to his wonderful stories, Grandad’s granddaughter has an idea to cheer him up… A perfect story for Grandad on Father’s Day. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021! ‘A colour-flooded riot of memory… a poignant sense of intergenerational love & grief made manageable makes this beautiful debut stand out’ GUARDIAN ‘A glowingly colourful journey of remembered joy, managed grief & renewed delight in living’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Colour - The categorised spectrum of light visable to humans

Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.

Year - The time it takes the planet earth to orbit the sun. This takes around 365.25 days.

Love - Someone who shows deep affection for someone else.

Year - 365 days (366 days in a leap year), the time taken for planet earth to make one full revolution around the sun.

Children - A young life form within the early stages of physical development,

Memory - A way to describe the way in which the brain can remember things.

Wonderful - Another word for describing something that is extremely good, marvellous.

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