Hop in the yellow car and look out for all the other forms of transportation on the way home from Grandpa's. A beautiful, double-page spread at the end features all of the colors and modes of transportation from the story.

Follow a family in their bouncy yellow car and enjoy all kinds of counting, colouring and map reading activities as they make their way home. Includes a set of full colour reusable stickers.

Children will enjoy all sorts of fun activities in this transportation-based activity book, inspired by The Journey Home from Grandpa's book and CD. Features puzzles, word games, coloring activities and more, and includes full-color reusable stickers.

This book is a personal journey through the lives of three generations of the authors family, told in great detail. It begins with her grandparents; Edgil and Minnie "Griffith" Wicker in 1924. Her mother, AnnaBelle, was the second of fifteen children, and first daughter. Her life is one of twists and turns. Married twice, divorced twice, two daughters, and a gypsy spirit. Then, the story turns to the authors life. Her childhood, marraige, loves, temptations, and the decisions that would sometimes haunt her in her dreams. The heart does go on. The author has added her poetry to the flow of the story. She has also included photographs of the family to help bring the story to life for the readers. Some of these date from the early 1900's.

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

This is the real-life story of a boy-child's journey to man-child whose start in life began in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the Great Depression. The journey takes him to Colorado, where for the first ten years of his life, he was raised by his maternal grandparents, with stop-offs from time to time with foster parent friends of his mother. He was placed in a home for needy children during the war years, 1942-1945. He left the home in 1946 at age 15 and journeyed the difficult teen years as a high school dropout taking jobs ranging from the work camps of the forest service to the oil fields of Wyoming and the fishing boats of California. His feelings, thoughts, and actions along the way are those of a boy-some dumb, some silly, and some maybe even profound. He knew cruel and frozen homelessness and hunger firsthand, as well as the kindness of strangers. The reader will meet the mentors who helped shape the boy's life: the loving and caring grandmother, the hard-as-nails grandfather, the nineteen-year-old seductress, the pool shark instructor, the crap shooters, the ex-GIs, some tough guys, some delicate guys, some good girls, some bad girls, and some people dumb as a rock and some smart as a whip. They all contributed to who the boy became.