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Grandma tells the best stories about the family, and tells her grandchild about when she found out she was going to be a grandma and how everyone in the family was so excited. Illustrations.
Author Notes
Miriam Schlein, whose nearly one hundred books, written over 50 years, taught very young children about animals and concepts like time and space, died on Nov. 23, 2004 in New York. She was 78 and lived in Manhattan.
Ms. Schlein found new ways of telling children about bats and skunks and porcupines and their behavior even as she cleared up myths about them. Some of her books were about dinosaurs: "Before the Dinosaurs" (1996), illustrated by Michael Rothman; "The Dino Quiz Book" (1995), illustrated by Nate Evans; "Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking!" (1991), illustrated by Kate Duke; and "Discovering Dinosaur Babies" (1991), illustrated by Margaret Colbert.
Other works featured elephants, pandas, sea horses. pigeons and squirrels. Two new books, her last: "The Story About Me," and "Little Raccoon's Big Question." She first appeared in print in 1951 with "A Day at the Playground" from Golden Books, where she worked as a secretary.
Ms. Schlein received a B.A. in English and psychology from Brooklyn College in 1947 and then held a number of jobs in advertising and publishing. She was in the children's department of Simon & Schuster when she decided that her future lay in writing. She pursued it with a series of books about concepts, illustrated by Leonard Kessler and published by William R. Scott. They included "Shapes" (1952) and "Heavy Is a Hippopotamus." In the 1950's she also wrote some stories about children and animals that won her wide recognition and awards, including "Four Little Foxes," "Elephant Herd," and "When Will the World Be Mine?" about a baby snowshoe rabbit, which The New Yorker called "a poetic book."
Some of Ms. Schlein's books were Junior Literary Guild Selections and several of her natural-science titles received Outstanding Science Books for Children awards. "When Will the World Be Mine?" (1953), republished 20 years later as "The Rabbit's World," was named a Caldecott Honor Book.
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School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-In this heartwarming picture book, a girl asks her grandmother to tell her a story. Beginning with "This story- is about you," Grandma describes how the child's parents and various family members waited expectantly for her arrival. Daddy wrote a song, Great-aunt Sally knitted a sweater, Mama's belly grew, and everyone helped prepare the nursery. Cousins all around the country eagerly awaited the news, and everyone came by train, bus, car, and plane to see this tiny new relative, whom they instantly loved. The child asks, "Why did you love me? You didn't even know me yet?" and Grandma responds, "That's just the way it is with families." All children need to hear these words, and adults can help them to recognize that they are special through books like this one. The text is gentle and simply worded, and the illustrations are attractive and colorful, with scrapbooklike pictures showing various family members. A good choice for group sharing and one-on-one readings with a caring adult.-Deborah Rothaug, Pasadena Elementary School, Plainview, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.