Life Is Beautiful

by Winsome Bingham (Author) Molly Mendoza (Illustrator)

Life Is Beautiful
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

A hopeful and poignant picture book about a little girl who loses her grandmother and how, even in the midst of sadness and loss, life is beautiful.

Every week, Granny Dee takes three trains and one bus to have a weekend full of TV-watching, bubble-bathing, nail-painting, day-tripping, and living LIFE with her granddaughter. Granny Dee always says, "Everybody should enjoy life. Life is beautiful."

Until one weekend Granny Dee doesn't come, and Momma says she's getting too old for trains and buses. So week after week, the little girl and her momma go to her instead. Then, one Sunday morning, Granny Dee dies. Can Momma and the little girl still find beauty in life while missing someone they loved?

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A soul-stirring opportunity for joyful reflection while preparing for one of life’s hardest yet most ever-present realities.

Winsome Bingham
Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, US Army war and disabled veteran, and the author of one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year, Soul Food Sunday. She received both bachelor's and master's degrees in education and has more than 15 years of teaching experience. You can find her cooking up soul food or taking THE WALK to the polls with friends and family. She lives in Connecticut.
E.B. Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of numerous books for children, including Coming on Home Soon (a Caldecott Honor Book), Talkin' About Bessie (a Coretta Scott King Award winner), and The Bat Boy and His Violin (a Coretta Scott King Honor book). In 2003, the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota purchased a collection of original watercolors from Lewis's first 50 children's books. Today, his works are displayed in museums, owned by private collectors, and sold by art galleries throughout the United States and Europe. He lives in New Jersey.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781534469952
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Publication date
October 01, 2024
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV039030 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Death & Dying
JUV013030 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
Library of Congress categories
Death
Grandmothers
Grandparent and child
Grief
Bereavement
African American families
Granddaughters

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