This a story of a little girl and her mother. The little girl asks her mother all about how things were when she was growing up and compared their lives. She realizes how different her mother's life was. Her mother called dolls in the store chalk dolls and all she ever had was a rag doll. Rose and her mother made her a rag doll of her own. I would use this for 1st-5th grade. I would use this book to teach diversity and to show how things were different when their parents or grandparents were growing up.