Grandma’s Promise is a book about a little girl’s adventure in the winter at Grandma’s house. The snow comes and the electricity goes out. As Kim and Grandma make food for the animals, Grandma tells Kim how the buds on the plum tree are a promise that she will be back in the summer. Grandma sends ice skates home with Kim as a reminder that she can always come back to Grandma’s house.

I love books about relationships and this is a good one. The time they spend together not only connects Kim and her Grandmother but also her Mother. It’s a sweet story.

We could use this book to talk about how the animals don’t have food in the winter. We could make peanut butter pine cones to feed the birds and put outside on trees or send home for the students to hang on trees at their homes.