My Grandad

Books about the death of a grandparent are much more available now than they were. This is a sensitive addition to the genre which follows the usual approach. A young girl is remembering the happy times she had with her Grandad - gardening, going out, the time he left his hat on the car roof when they drove off - and concludes, 'I still have my Grandad in many ways even though he died. The story would help children talk about their own memories of a loved relative. I have some reservations about the illustrations - they have a blurred quality which is not unattractive but may lack enough definition for younger children to make sense of them easily.