As grandpa naps, Lizzie minds the store and a woman comes in wanting to buy grandpa. As the woman offers more and more money, Lizzie thinks about all the things she can buy but then gets sad as she doesn't know who she would do things with when she sells grandpa. Genre, contemporary realistic fiction as it is something that could happen. Media, grey scale, water colors. ( )

In this book, Lizzie – a young girl minding her mother’s antique store for the day – learns just how important her grandfather is to her when a shopper offers thousands of dollars to buy Lizzie’s sleeping grandfather, but Lizzie refuses when she realizes how much she would miss him. The illustrations in this book are clever, in that color drawings are used for the people or objects being profiled and black and white drawings are used for background content. For example, when Lizzie thinks of things she could buy with thousands of dollars, her grandfather is drawn in black and white while the rest of the picture is in color because he would not be there. This book was viewed as an e-book. In this format, the illustrations were clear, the text was dark enough to read, and the reader could zoom in and out of the pages. However, being able to only view one page at a time limited the enjoyableness of reading the book since some of the illustrations covered two pages. Overall, this book is recommended for reading, either as an e-book or a paperback, since it teaches lessons about the importance and value of family. ( )

Grandpa For Sale is another character building story book for children. Lizzie watches her mother's store for the day and ends up achieving much more. An upity lady, Mrs. Bradley, who had lots of money and enjoyed buying the nice things in life, came into the store that day and wanted to buy Lizzie's grandpa who was alseep on the sofa. She thought he looked like a nice antique. She offered Lizzie a lot of money for old grandpa, but after much thought and imaging what she could do with all that money, she decided that life without grandpa would not be worth it. This book teaches children that family is priceless and should be cherished.

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