Review: A sweet little story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2012
"Nannie's Moon" is a sweet children's story of a grandmother teaching her grandchild about the phases of the moon by comparing the shape of the moon to everyday items, and also about the stages of growing tomatoes in her garden.  Each day they check on the growth and the grandmother explains each stage, from flowering to the final, nice, round tomato to her grandchild.There are some very nice sentences written by this Southern author who writes literary fiction, such as in Part 2 when the child brushes Nannie's hair.  "She says her gray hair used to be blond like mine.  When I brush her hair, it crinkles like autumn hay.  Her hair is the color of the moon; mine is the color of the sun."  The use of a season and colors sets a mood and the contrast between child and adult.Illustrations would enhance the story for children, but I found the story to be quite sweet and tender, but for a child older than toddlers.  I'd place it in the 5-7 year-old age range.The description says 3 pages, but it was longer than 3 pages on my Kindle.  Recommended as a nice children's story and as a teaching story, also.