Great-Grandma’s Gifts by Marianne Jones

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Great-Grandma's GiftsGreat Gandma’s Gifts
Author: Marianne Jones
Picture Book: unpaged
Language: English
ISBN 13: 978-0-9812516-9-1
List price: $10 paperback

Reviewed By: Janice D. Green

Rating: :) :) :) :)

Great-Grandma’s Gifts is a children’s book after my heart. My earliest memories of my mother are of her sewing clothes, and like Arlene’s mother, she gave me scraps to play with. So I quickly related to Arlene who learned to love to sew at a very early age. This gentle book begins with Arlene’s childhood and shows how she grew up using her love for sewing to give joy to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with gifts of stuffed toys, dolls, and quilts.

Author Marianne Jones describes the fabrics with word choices and repetition that children will love. The pictures have a soft nostalgic feel that will appeal to the very young, and especially to girls. The opening two-page spread seems a bit wordy for young children, and boys may not take to the story line as quickly as girls. But many will come to treasure Arlene’s spirit of giving home-sewn gifts to her family.

I give Great Gandma’s Gifts four :) s out of a possible five.

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I received this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest, though not necessarily positive, review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s CFR Title 16, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Reviewed by Janice D. Green, author of The Creation and The First Christmas.

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Janice D. Green, wife, mother, and grandmother, retired after over 20 years in the public school system, most which were as an elementary librarian, with a goal to write Christian children's books. Her most recent releases are Jonah: The Fearful Prophet and The Creation (second edition) which are both published in three different formats. Janice's passion is to write about the Bible in a way that encourages people to want to know more and to read it for themselves. She also quilts and hopes to inspire families and youth groups to create Bible quilts for children. www.honeycombadventures.com www.biblequilts.com.

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