Lila Danisa
This book made me cry! I needed to reread it like 5 more times to make sure I wouldn't cry again when I read it to my son. Still didn't work, my voice was still shaking and my son was so attune to me and knew that this book made me sad. My son was also sad with the story and flipped the scenario of what if I someday forget about him. Oh that was the beginning of our long full of tears discussion. At the end, I think he mostly understood about dementia.
This book made him scheduling (impromptu) routine video calls with his Grandma (his father's mother), his Ompung (my mother), and his Mbah (my father). Afterward he sadly concluded that his Grandma is mostly would get dementia because she sometimes forgets where we currently live and his full name. That made him sad again but fortunately could regulate his sadness with the help of this book. Until I write this review, this book is still in our reread shelf.
My son (and I) loved the illustrations. He said the grandpa in this book looks like his belated Grandpa and made him even love this book.
Thank you to Julia Vasileva, Clavis Publishing, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
This book made me cry! I needed to reread it like 5 more times to make sure I wouldn't cry again when I read it to my son. Still didn't work, my voice was still shaking and my son was so attune to me and knew that this book made me sad. My son was also sad with the story and flipped the scenario of what if I someday forget about him. Oh that was the beginning of our long full of tears discussion. At the end, I think he mostly understood about dementia.
This book made him scheduling (impromptu) routine video calls with his Grandma (his father's mother), his Ompung (my mother), and his Mbah (my father). Afterward he sadly concluded that his Grandma is mostly would get dementia because she sometimes forgets where we currently live and his full name. That made him sad again but fortunately could regulate his sadness with the help of this book. Until I write this review, this book is still in our reread shelf.
My son (and I) loved the illustrations. He said the grandpa in this book looks like his belated Grandpa and made him even love this book.
Thank you to Julia Vasileva, Clavis Publishing, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.