This is a beautiful, sensitively told story of love and loss and of a special relationship between grandfather and grandson. Jake loves playing in Grandad's workshop. One autumn day, Grandad teaches Jake how to chisel his name in a piece of wood, and afterwards they go to the park. Grandad shows Jake the tree that grew from an acorn he planted when he was a boy. Jake goes off to buy ice-creams and returns to find Grandad on the ground. The ambulance arrives. Mum and Jake go home without Grandad... Jake grieves for his grandfather all winter. But Grandad has left him his workshop and Jake wants to make something special. With Mum's help, he does - a plaque for the bench under Grandad's tree. It is spring; for the first time in months, Jake feels happy.

 

This book is part of a book series called Walker Stories .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Walker Books Ltd .

ADDY FARMER is a children's writer and teacher. She is networks co-ordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and regional co-ordinator for the SCBWI in the North East. Her story for early readers, Grandad's Bench, was published by Walker Books in 2008. She lives in Lincolnshire. CHRIS FISHER has illustrated around 65 books including Nonsense Nursery Rhymes (for which he received the Play and Learn Gold Award in 1998) and The Snow Dragon for which he received a Kate Greenaway Medal nomination in 2000 SOPHIE PIPER is the author of Lion's Lullaby Rhymes series. RUTH RIVERS has previously illustrated This Amazing World for Lion.