A Beautiful Pearl

by Nancy Whitelaw

Book Overview

Although her mind is deteriorating from the effects of Alzheimer's disease, Grandma presents Lisa with a special gift on her birthday. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807505994
• ISBN13: 9780807505991
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Beautiful Pearl

Nancy Whitelaw's A BEAUTIFUL PEARL is a masterfully written, sensitvive story of a young girl visiting her grandmother who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Imagine the poor grandaughter's apprehension at seeing this confused old woman who can't even remember where she put the girl's birthday present. Eventually the grandmother regains enough lucidity to remember her grandaughter's present: a beautiful pearl. Yet as the old woman gives the gift to her grandaughter the reader is left wondering if it's not really the grandmother rather than the gift who is the more beautiful pearl. With so many children experiencing just such situations in their lives today this book is a must.