Red Blue & Yellow Yarn: A Tale of Forgiveness - Hardcover

Miriam Kosman; Hachai Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0922613788 ISBN 13: 9780922613786

Publisher: Hachai Pubns, 1996

Synopsis

Danny isn't sure what his grandmother thinks of him. She is so proper and his behavior is far from perfect. Yet, when Danny gets tangled up in some trouble, his grandmother reveals the secret that all grandmothers and grandchildren share.

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Review:

Donny isn't sure what Grandma thinks of him...she is so proper and his behavior is far from perfect. Yet, when Donny gets tangled up in some trouble, Grandma reveals the secret that all Grandmothers and grandchildren share. This warm tale of inter-generational love is complimented by whimsical full-color drawings! -- L'Chaim, Oct. 25, 1996

How a mischievous young boy learns to relate to his very proper grandmother is the focus of this sensitive, amusing story. Donny is not very happy about Bubby's visit. He chafes at all her rules. He has to give up his bedroom for his grandmother, he has to be quite while she rests and he has to pass inspection before every meal. Donny even has to use a napkin, just because Bubby does! And, worst of all, whenever Bubby is around, Donny always seems to get into trouble. When Donny juggles with Bubby's balls of yarn, unwinding them all over the room, Mommy get angry and sternly tells him to remind them. How can Donny ever straighten out all yarn? He'll be winding yarn until he is an old man! Just as Donny is about to give up, Bubby offers to help him...and she, unlike Mommy, isn't even angry. Grandma tells Donny a story about a mistake she made when she was his age and how her grandma forgave her and helped her make things right. She also tells Donny how her grandma told Bubby about a mistake she made as a child and how her grandma helped and forgave her, just like she is helping Donny. A delightful tale, Red, Blue And Yellow Yarn helps children understand that mistakes are natural and that being able to forgive is the key to loving relationships. The very special, unconditional love that grandparents and grandchildren can share is also an important theme of the book. Red, Blue and Yellow Yarn provides a wonderful way of encouraging children not to judge other people and to forgive their mistakes. -- San Diego Jewish Times, La Mesa, CA May 29, 1997

Is a sensitive tale about a young boy's strained relationship with his very proper grandmother. How will his Bubby react to the mischief he stumbles into? Surely, she's never acted like he did...or has she? By sharing long-ago events with her grandson, Bubby makes it clear that forgiveness is the key to healing relationships and letting love grow between people of all ages. -- Book Description

Most children can't fathom that their parents or grandparents were once children too. Little Donny surely couldn't picture his grandmother ever being a child. In addition to sleeping in his room and he not being allowed to enter it, she had so many rules that he was always getting into trouble whenever she visited. Sneaking into his room to retrieve a toy, he cannot resist the yarn balls he finds heaped upon his bed and juggles himself into a rainbow spider web. To his delight, grandma not only offered to help with the rewinding, she told him "naughty children" stories going back through three generations, beginning with her and ending with Donny's great-great-grandmother. The pen and ink, watercolor illustrations are whimsical and filled with movement, in tune with the story's mischievous little hero and reformed grandma. -- Jewish Book World,New York, NY Spring 1997

Our Zeidi says that people live in such a mobile world nowadays. He says that hardly anybody lives in the same state of mind as their parents or their children. In fact, he says, some kids think that their grandparents live at the airport for that is where they go to pick them up when they come to visit. This is why we think that this is such a good book for children to read. It teaches two very important lessons that kids need to know. One is that grandparents were once children themselves, that, believe it or not, they too once did --Parent Council Ltd, Richardson, TX Spring/Summer 1997

From The New Yorker:

"Red, Blue and Yellow Yarn, a Tale of Forgiveness" by Miriam R. Kosman, illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev, also has a local connection. This Hachai Publishing Book, $9.95, is edited by former Pittsburgher Dina Rosenfeld. It is the story of crime and punishment (although on a much lesser scale!). The story tells of young Donny, who must be on his best behavior since his Bubby (grandmother) has come for a visit, and who can't seem to stay out of trouble. When Donny finds his grandmother's red, blue and yellow yarn lying on the bed, it's just too tempting not to play with it. The yarn, as you can imagine, gets all tangled up and Donny's mother is livid. But his Bubby helps him clean up the mess, relating a tale of her own "crime and punishment." It seems that when Bubby was a young girl. . .she broke a jar of nuts that her grandmother had cracked for hours to make the Passover cake. And, Donny's grandmother continues, her grandmother helped her because --you guesses it-- she, too, had a committed a "crime" when she was a child. Read the book to find out the particulars. "Red, Blue & Yellow Yarn" is a fun "spin" on an old tale of forgiveness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachai Pubns
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0922613788
• ISBN 13: 9780922613786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Editor: D.L. Rosenfeld
• Illustrator: Valeri Gorbachev