La Porte County Public Library System

Gus and Grandpa have a loving, warm relationship.

Fourteen-year-old Jake recalls how he has spent the last four years of his life watching his grandfather descend slowly but surely into the horrors of Alzheimer's disease.

Lizzie is minding the family antique store while her grandpa naps on a spindly sofa. When Mrs. Larchmont enters and begins her buying spree, she refuses to leave without bargaining for the one antique not for sale...Grandpa!

While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.

With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.

Second-grader Gus wants a store-bought Halloween costume to wear to school, but because he knows his parents do not believe in buying costumes, he turns to his grandfather for help.

When Charlie spends the summer growing watermelons with his grandfather, his secret wish is to do it all over again the next year.

A grandfather relates to his grandson tales of the small country school he attended in the 1940s.

Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime.