My pick of all your titles in this series is Grandpa’s Slippers which he keeps misplacing – when he finally found them at the top of the rubbish, it’s great because Grandma thought she was tricking him but she didn’t triumph. The illustrations are very expressive and impressive and you are lucky to have a great illustrator to bring your words alive. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: VERY GOOD US 4.49 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. They always make me laugh because the antics Grandpa gets up to are very amusing but also believable for old people to speak, think and act like this. Grandpa's Slippers Joy Watson Published by Scholastic, Inc., 1989 ISBN 10: 0908643675 ISBN 13: 9780908643677 Seller: Discover Books, Toledo, U.S.A. I see Grandpa’s Cardigan was first published in 1993 and on the cover it says “New Zealand’s Favourite Grandpa for 25 years” and I agree. I loved your Grandpa stories then and still do now which to me says your stories are hugely successful. NZSA extends special condolences to NZSA member, writer, and daughter, Mary-anne Scott, who is one of Joy’s nine children.You are my favourite New Zealand author and have been since I was about 6 years. Written with her wry sense of humour, the books have resonated with thousands of children and their parents, and are a wonderful legacy to the world of New Zealand publishing. With nearly half a million books in print across the series, Joy Watson’s Grandpa books are some of New Zealand’s all-time bestselling children’s picture books. All five titles have also been published in te reo Māori. Grandpa’s Slippers also won the Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book in 2000, and Grandpa’s Shorts won the Children’s Choice Award in 2002.

Generations of children know Joy as the author of the much-loved series of five picture books about Grandpa (supposedly inspired by her husband!), illustrated by Wendy Hodder and beginning with the iconic Grandpa’s Slippers in 1989, which sold in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada and Spain, in various editions, including an enlarged book for shared reading. Napier Libraries Storytime - Grandpas Slippers by Joy Watson - YouTube Welcome to Napier Libraries online Storytime.To celebrate Joy Watson, Childrens Librarian Kate is reading Grandpas. Scholastic New Zealand and NZSA are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of dearly loved children’s author, Joy Watson, on Monday 4 October. Grandpas Slippers Paperback 1 January 2014 by Joy Watson (Author) 20 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 30.00 2 New from 30. Posted on 7 October 2021 Categories: News No comments yet Grandpas Slippers - By Joy Watson - Picture book read aloud Relaxed storytelling Grandpas slippers are getting old so Grandma buys him some new ones.

Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Watson