Everything is Different at Nonna's House

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Everything is different at Nonna’s house. No honk, honk taxis jam the street. No way-up buildings crowd the sky. At Nonna’s house there’s always time for blueberry pancakes. And there are fun jobs to do all day long, like clipping the roses, feeding the cows, and riding on the tractor with Pop-Pop. Best of all, when it turns dark, something surprising happens to remind the little boy that he can take his grandmother’s love wherever he goes.

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Everything is different at Nonna’s house. No honk, honk taxis jam the street. No way-up buildings crowd the sky. At Nonna’s house there’s always time for blueberry pancakes. And there are fun jobs to do all day long, like clipping the roses, feeding the cows, and riding on the tractor with Pop-Pop. Best of all, when it turns dark, something surprising happens to remind the little boy that he can take his grandmother’s love wherever he goes.

Accompanied by Hiroe Nakata’s bright watercolor paintings, this sprightly story celebrates the joy of new experiences and the special bond between grandparents and children.

A young boy describes the differences between his home in the city and life on his grandparents' farm and learns that no matter where he is their love for him is always the same.

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When a boy and his mother leave the city for his grandparents' farm, "everything is different." This beguiling young narrator's comparisons flow with believable, grammatically creative child-speak: "No honk, honk taxis jam the street./ And no way-up buildings crowd the sky." He accurately gauges the relaxed atmosphere, too. "When the sun pokes in,/ it's get-up time, but very slow. Momma smiles,/ right there, and never goes away." In a sly, wisely reassuring conspiracy, Cohen (The Mud Pony) and Nakata (Don't Step on the Sky: A Handful of Haiku) bridge the dichotomy, celebrating the virtues of town and country. In numerous spreads, Nakata juxtaposes spot art of busy city life with larger scenes of bucolic bliss, but subtly unifies these worlds with upbeat, sunny watercolors . Her jumbled up taxis and jangling alarm clocks feel happily energetic rather than frenetic; the flowers so abundant at Nonna's pop up at a city flower shop, too. One magical night on the farm, the boy thinks that he holds the moon when he encircles its image with his hands. He muses that even "the whole sky is different," but Nonna reassures him that wherever he is, the sky is the same, and that he is the same, dearly loved "big boy." Those new to travel or separated from loved ones especially may find comfort in this affection-filled tale, convincingly told in the voice of an experienced peer. Ages 3-6. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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A little boy and his mother leave their city apartment and go out to the country to visit his grandparents. The little boy contrasts life at the two places. At home they grab toast and run. At Nonna's there is time to make blueberry pancakes. And what special times they have together. They stay out late on the porch and watch the stars and the moon. When he returns home, he enjoys his regular routine, remembering what he did at Nonna's. When he sees the moon from his bedroom in the city he remarks how he "can hold it. Just like at Nonna's house." The soft watercolors are full of exuberance, and illustrate a wonderful relationship between child and grandmother. As the little boy discusses the differences, the reader can see some small illustrations on the upper left-hand page that show his life in the city. The contrast then is in both the words and the pictures. Grandchildren who live a distance from their grandparents will recognize that love overcomes the physical distance between them. 2003, Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin,
— Sharon Salluzzo
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 3-An intergenerational story filled with love and affection. A city boy and his mom visit his grandparents' farm. At Nonna's, "There's always time for blueberry pancakes." Instead of riding the apartment elevator, he rides the tractor with Pop-Pop. Here, there's no deli, only "moo cows." The important moment arrives when he and Nonna go out to see the moon. The sky looks different to him, and when he reaches up, it seems as though he can hold the moon in his hands. He tells his grandmother, "At your house, I'm a big boy," and she explains that it's the same sky and that he's a big boy no matter where he is. With its sunny yellow checkerboard cover and endpapers and its palette of warm hues, this cheerful picture book has just the right illustrations to carry it along. The rounded and elongated figures dance across the pages. Many of the objects are no more than splashes of color, but the slow, homey feel of the country and the bustling mood of the city are clearly delineated. Pair this with Edith Hurd's I Dance in My Red Pajamas (HarperCollins, 1982) or Amy Hest's Weekend Girl (Morrow, 1993; o.p.).-Jane Marino, Scarsdale Public Library, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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A cheery tale in child-bright colors offers a city vs. country theme. A little boy and his mom take a taxi from their city apartment to the train and then to Nonna and Pop-Pop’s house in the country, where "the whole blue sky reaches all the way down to the flower beds." In the country, he rides a tractor, not an elevator, and there’s no deli on the corner, but there are cows. In the city, flowers come from the corner shop, but at Nonna’s, they grow beside the kitchen door. He relates in the sweetest of language how there’s no rushing for school and work at Nonna’s, there’s always time for making pancakes. But when he gets back home to the city, he can hold the moon in his hands from his city window, just like he could at Nonna’s. Nakata’s fresh, dappled watercolors perfectly suit this story, with its apple-cheeked figures, flower-covered countryside, and lively cityscape that looks, with its yellow taxis and glimpse of the Empire State Building, just like a happy New York City. (Picture book. 3-7)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780618073351
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 5/19/2003
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Edition description: None
  • Pages: 40
  • Age range: 3 - 6 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.00 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.13 (d)

Meet the Author

Caron Lee Cohen is the author of more than a dozen books for children, including the best-selling The Mud Pony, and, for Clarion, Happy to You! and Martin and the Giant Lions. She lives in New York City.
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