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For Katie, nothing compares to Thanksgiving at Grandma's. There are the aunts and uncles, whom Katie loves to see each year. But a cherished object is broken at dinner, and Katie blames herself for spoiling the day.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-3-A sweet, simple story with a heartwarming message. When Katie visits Grandma for Thanksgiving, she accidentally breaks her cherished gravy boat. As Katie bursts out crying, her grandmother quickly whisks her away to the guest room where she keeps her "memory cupboard," a special place full of beloved things that have become worn out or broken through the years. Each item has a story, and Grandma's loving reassurance comforts the child and allows her to see that things may get broken, but granddaughters are forever. Realistic acrylic illustrations depict a loving family happy to be gathering at Grandma's. A pleasant addition to holiday collections.-Teri Markson, Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School, Los Angeles (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
When Katie breaks the gravy boat (a childhood gift from Katie's mother to her grandmother) while clearing the Thanksgiving table, her grandmother shows Katie a "memory cupboard" crammed with other meaningful broken objects. Herman's (the Max Malone books) message focuses on forgiveness-stressing that people matter more than things-but the slow, stilted narrative serves only to deliver the moral, not to develop the characters. Stahl (The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh) portrays a certain warmth between Katie and her grandmother, but the other characters look stiff, the compositions static. Ages 6-9. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Wanting to help clear the Thanksgiving table, Katie accidentally breaks an antique gravy boat. Katie is horrified, but Grandma shows her a cupboard filled with old broken toys, clocks, and dishes, each with a story to tell--her memory cupboard. Things are just things, she tells Katie. Realistic, though slightly stiff, paintings complement the story in which love matters more than objects. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
PreS-Gr. 2. In an upbeat family story,atie travels east with Mom and Dad by train to spend Thanksgiving with her extended family in Grandma's Westport home, the big white house where Mom grew up.atie is an only child, so she is at center stage among all the smiling relatives. Then she accidentally drops a precious antique gravy boat, and she's overcome with shame until Grandma shows her the memory cupboard full of old toys, teapots, dolls, and clocks, each one broken, each one with a story to tell. Of course, the family's total bliss isn't realistic; there's not an irritable word or tense face anywhere in the story. What's more,atie looks older than the picture-book target audience for this. Even so, many younger kids will recognizeatie's happiness at the reunion, her guilt, and her intense bond with her grandparent, which Stahl reflects with extraordinary depth and detail in warm, beautiful acrylic paintings that capture the Norman Rockwell-like domestic idyll and an enduring bond with a grandparent who says, Things are just things. People are more important. --Hazel Rochman Copyright 2003 Booklist