Review: The Grands and I Agree It Does Not Get More Fun Than This Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Well, good , bad or indifferent I am known as a no nonsense YaYa to my Grands. I have been told by them each at one point or another I’m not fun like their other grandmother. She buys them candy and they go shopping. But I just give them books and try and get them to work in the kitchen cooking LOL.My goal while not to compete with the other grandmother would be to have balance, with the Grands and be the fun YaYa sometimes. So over the last year, I have made some attempts to be cool. Unfortunately, this voice comes in my head that says “fun is great, but teaching they will remember.”This book has become he bridge between straight, career woman YaYa, who does not bake cookies and fun, goofy Yaya who want’s them to know that when all of their parents go out of town together. They all end up here and YaYa has a house full of eight to ten year olds and I’m talking six of them,I have no cable and a very slow internet, I don’t allow video games so what did we do? We passed  the Kindle around and had a group read. The results on the funometer according to the Grands. While we enjoyed Root  Beer Floats created, with forced labor they didn’t seem to mind. I’m sorry I digress the overall review of the Grands is below.Elijah “It was fun-ny, I kind of, wish my dad was more like Nickys dad at least once in awhile.”Bea- “Maybe I’ll write a book someday you never know YaYa, I’m not sure mine would be funnier, but I think it might could be.”Zach- “Tell the author I said even though there were no battles that was okay because I read it with my YaYa. But a few battles never hurt a good book.”Dakota- “It wasn’t really a girl book or a boy book that is what I liked about it.”September- “Well, I would like the author to know I had a great time reading her book with my cousins and it really filled up a boring Saturday night.”Max- “I liked it my cheeks hurt from smiling, but YaYa I don’t think most of that really could happen in real life. But its like a video game kind fun to think about.”So there you have it Author Vimal Vaz the opinions from my Peanut gallery. My take on the book is that it is brilliantly illustrated, the imagination to conceive, and write it off the charts, and overall after we tallied the vote your review score drum roll please a solid five.On a personal note, thanks for creating a book that helped me to create a night they will always remember. Without cable, internet or cell phones just the cousins laughing, interacting and having fun.