Grandmas at the Lake: Stories and Pictures

by Emily Arnold McCully

Book Overview

"Those grandmas from The Grandma Mix-up are back again, sharing a lakeside cabin with Pip and Ski. The kids find it hard to put up with the grandmas' contradictory advice, so they go rowing by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060241268
• ISBN13: 9780060241261
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Grandmas At The Lake!

In this story, Grandma Nan calls Pip and invites him to spend a weekend at her cabin by the lake. Nan has already invited Grandma Sal and told Pip that he could invite his best friend, Ski. At the cabin, the Grandmas disagree on everything. Grandma Nan is too strict. But Grandma Sal is too laid back. Pip and Ski are bothered by the feuding grandmothers and try to escape them by going for a walk in the woods. But the grandmas follow! When Grandma Sal declares it "Nap Time," Pip and Sal sneak out of the house and hop in Grandma Nan's row boat. The two paddle out into the middle of the lake. When the grandmas wake up and find them in the boat, Nan grows upset, but Grandma Sal just questions why they weren't invited! Grandma Nan demands that they return, but they make the both the grandmas promise that they will stop arguing! The grandmas promise! I thought that this book had a nice storyline. This story, like the other "Grandma Sal and Grandma Nan" stories, is meant for early readers. I found this an entertaining, humorous story and I highly recommend it to all.

Kids Can Be Trusted

That's all the kids want, but their two grandmas are too busy with their conflicting parenting styles to let them get a word in edgewise. So they finally take things in their own hands and show their grandmas how careful they can be and have fun at the same time. My daughter enjoys the book very much [especially since I use the names she calls her grandmas] and imagines herself having fun with them at the lake. And I always laugh imagining my mother and mother in law trying to watch the kids alone together!