Grandma's Tiny House [Board book]

Chicago Public Library’s 2017 Best of the Best Books selection

A fine addition to book collections about families, food, counting, and joyous gatherings — The Horn Book

This sweet, rhyming counting book introduces young readers to numbers one through fifteen as Grandma’s family and friends fill her tiny house on Brown Street. Neighbors, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and grandkids crowd into the house and pile it high with treats for a family feast.

But when the walls begin to bulge and nobody has space enough to eat, one clever grandchild knows exactly what to do.*A grandmother welcomes her family, friends, and neighbors into her small home, and everyone arrives with lots of food and energy. As the guests show up, Brown-Wood counts up to 15 hungry grandkids, writing in breezy, confident rhymes: Nine chatting aunties all head for the den,/ and set down the cheesecakes that add up to ten. Burris introduces the mostly African-American cast in smudgy digital illustrations with crayonlike outlines, creating a vibe of good-natured chaos. With no room indoors, the party moves into the backyard: Perfect in size, at the edge of Brown Street,/ sits Grandma's backyard, where we all go to eat. A warmhearted tribute to the messy joys of a big, impromptu gathering.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review


A fantastic feast unfolds as Grandma's family gathers at her very small home.There are TWO turkeys send[ing] scrumptious smells through the air, FOUR pots of hot greens and ham hocks galore. And that's just to start. Beyond the food, there are the bearers of all these treats. SEVEN cool uncles stroll up in a line, / with EIGHT jugs of lemonade, ice-cold and fine. This rhyming counting book features a large family with browlS2