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Grandpa for Sale
Dotti Enderle and Vicki Sansum
Illustrated by T. Kyle Gentry
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 7
Flash Light, 2007, 978-0-9729225-8-6
  One day Lizzie is minding the family antique store. Her mother won’t be away for long and her grandfather, as per usual, is asleep on the settee in the shop. Then a very glamorous woman comes into the shop. She decides to buy a pillow, a vase, a lamp, and Grandpa. Lizzie can hardly believe that someone wants to buy Grandpa. She cannot help being tempted as the lady offers her more and more money for her happily dozing relative. She cannot help imagining all the things she could buy with the money. But there again what would be the point of having all those things if Grandpa wasn’t there to enjoy those things with her.
  The glamorous woman, Mrs. Larchmont, offers more and more money, sums that make Lizzie’s knees wobble and her imagination go into hyper drive. Why, she would be able to make all her dreams come true if accepted the fifty thousand dollars. But, there again, she wouldn’t have her Grandpa with her if she agreed to sell him to Mrs. Larchmont. What is she to do?
  This clever picture book shows young readers that there are some things in life that are priceless. Thankfully for Grandpa, Lizzie knows this in her heart and when push comes to shove she makes the right decision. One cannot help wondering if Mrs. Larchmont will ever learn this valuable lesson.
 

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