Maurice Sendak illustrates his father's words.

Ian packs his little suitcase to go to his grandma and grandpa's house.

The purple train speeds along the shiny railway track, the shiny railway track, the shiny railway track. The purple train speeds along the shiny railway track, on the journey home from Grandpa s.

Nonfiction, Reading Recovery Level 4, F&P Level C, DRA2 Level 3, Theme Family, Stage Emergent-Early, Character N/A

A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Grandpa is full of surprises for his young grandson Woody, who comes to visit him one summer weekend.

On John's visits to Grandpa's house, his blind grandfather shares with him the special way he sees and moves in the world.