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Shu LIn’s Grandpa
Matt Goodfellow and Yu Rong
(Otter-Barry Books)- hardback
£12.99
Shu Lin’s Grandpa takes his paintings from his satchel to show Shu Lin’s class. The sit in silence and watch ‘the silver moon [rise] across the sky’ and stare into the eyes of ‘snarling dragons’. Thereafter, when Shu Lin’s grandfather kisses her goodbye and leaves, desks are pushed back and ‘big sheets of white paper’ are laid on the floor.
Yet what will Barney make of this? He suggested there was little ‘point if he can’t even speak English‘. Then again, something about Shu Lin takes Dylan back to when he ‘had to stand at the front of Mr Biggar’s class’, when it was suggested he should be made ‘to feel at home’. Dylan remembers he didn’t, ‘at the start’.
Matt Goodfellow’s text is point perfect. We feel concerned for Shu Lin, worried about the skipping buzz in the playground and all the eyes watching her curious lunch boxes. Then again, we gasp alongside the class, when her grandfather reveals his paintings, feeling the ‘flames and swirls of white mist‘. Yu Rong’s pictures are breathtaking, absolutely glorious.
Bookwagon recommends Shu Lin’s Grandpa to every home and classroom. This is an outstanding picture book that deserves reading, knowing, treasuring and gifting.
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Shu LIn’s Grandpa
Matt Goodfellow and Yu Rong
(Otter-Barry Books)- hardback
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