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Reviewed by Tiffany Ferrell for Readers' Favorite
In Where’s My Granny Gone? we meet a little girl who is curious as to where her grandmother has gone. Seeing a For Sale sign on her grandmother's lawn, when she asked her mother, she was told that her grandmother went to a nice place and they’d see her on the weekend. Her mother takes her to the nursing home, but the little girl isn’t so sure that her grandmother would be happy there. There were lots of people that Granny made friends with, telling the little girl that she was doing fine. The grandmother explains what she does each day at her new home, from playing Bingo on Mondays to dancing on Tuesdays to Tai Chi and art on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The little girl begins to understand but asks her about weekends which Granny gets to spend with her granddaughter and other family members.
I think John Priest has done a wonderful job of creating Where’s My Granny Gone? which will help children understand what a nursing home is. Working in a nursing home myself, I often encounter children that don’t understand what’s happening or why their grandparents are taken from their homes and placed in skilled nursing facilities. There’s often a stigma that comes with long-term care facilities that make not only children but adults uneasy about them. The book is well-written and easily understandable by young audiences. The illustrations that accompany the story fit perfectly and give readers a nice visual about what is happening in the book. This is the first children’s book on the subject that I have come across and it was executed perfectly. It’s a book I would find myself giving to family members of our residents to help young ones understand why their grandparent is there and why it’s not a bad thing.
