This is a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define childhood, expressed as a joyful fusion of text with evocative and exuberant illustrations.The world for this little girl will soon grow larger and more complex, but never more enchanting or deeply felt.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award. It was recognised by the Caldecott Award. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. It also was recognised by the Red Clover Award. It was recognised in the Grades K-3 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award. Also it was recognised in the Horn Book Award - Poetry category by the Boston Globe. It was recognised in the Ages 0-7 Years category by the Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens.

This book is part of a book series called Caldecott Medal Winners .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2005 by Hyperion .

Chris Raschka is a writer-illustrator of over sixty books for children. Among them are Charlie Parker Norton Juster was born in 1929, and trained as an architect. The Phantom Tollbooth, his most famous book, won the George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Award.