Our Snowman Had Olive Eyes

by Charlotte Herman

Book Overview

Ten-year-old Sheila develops a special relationship with her grandmother when Bubbie comes to live with the family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590302531
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An inspiration

I read this book as about a nine or ten year old (give or take), and it started a lifelong (so far) diary writing habit; a desire to record and interpret life. Or maybe it just tapped into an existing desire, I don't know. I re-read it at 36 and enjoyed it again. The book tells the story of a girl whose elderly maternal-grandmother comes to live with her family and share her room. The grandmother has a heart condition and the girl's mother wants to keep her quiet and un-busy, but the girl sees how unhappy this makes her grandmother. The book also touches on the girl's relationship with her older sister (whose diary she regularly steals reads of).