When Grandma tucks her pants into her oversized boots and grabs her walking stick, I run to catch up, reports a young Girl charmed by her visits to Grandma\'s North Woods home.
Her previous works include A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet and A Woodland Counting Book..
Writer-illustrator Claudia McGehee lives in Iowa City.
This is her first children\'s book.
Aim e Bissonette is a writer, teacher, and lawyer living in the Twin Cities.
With a tale as understated as Grandma herself, Aim e Bissonette shares a message of appreciating the treasures of our natural surroundings.
Small wonder that her admiring granddaughter is inspired to follow in her footsteps.
Grandma is the quintessential North Woods girl, breathing deep the piney scents, relishing the chirping activity of her animal neighbors.
Time with Grandma teaches about quiet observation, generous sharing of resources, the beauty of the forest and pond at any hour.
The forest of North Woods Girl is an active, populated place, brought to life by Claudia McGehee\'s colorful scratchboard artistry.
Whatever the month, there are plenty of woodland critters to observe: squirrels or rabbits or deer, geese or goldeneyes or mergansers.
Their walks take them through the seasons, to a pond with a downed tree just right for sitting, to a garden lush with tomatoes ready for canning, through a snowy nighttime Woods where the only sounds are the squeak of boots on snow and the hooting of a distant owl.
When Grandma tucks her pants into her oversized boots and grabs her walking stick, I run to catch up, reports a young Girl charmed by her visits to Grandma\'s North Woods home
