Annie and the Old One (Newbery Honor Book), (Paperback)

from empress8411

Sweet story of a young girl learning to deal with the death of a loved one. Her attempts to prevent it are child-like, and remind me how child conceive the world. It was sweet and heart-breaking. An excellent book for young children, perhaps for those who are struggling to understand death.

from QianqiongWang

Annie And The Old One is a realistic picture book tells a real story between Annie, her parents and grandmother. Annie is girl has a very close relationship with her grandmother. One day, her grandmother says that once the rug is completed by her daughter, she will return to Mother Nature, which ...

from athena.j

The genre of this book is realistic fiction. Annie, a young Navajo girl, is saddened by her grandmother's prediction that she will die when her mother finishes weaving the rug on her loom. In her small power, Annie tries everything to get her mother from weaving in order to preserve the life of h...

from satyridae

A quiet and reflective book about a young girl coming to terms with her grandmother's approaching death. The illustrations are also quiet but very lovely. Annie rebels against nature and tries to prevent time from passing. This does not work as well as she hoped it would, and her grandmother inte...

from Sara.rivera

Summary: Annie, a little Navajo girl, lives with her mother, father and grandmother. It is immediately clear that Annie loves her grandmother very much and spends much of her time with her. Annie's grandmother announces that when the rug on the loom is finished being woven, she will rejoin the Ea...