Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble
If your granny was a little bit, well, different from other grannies, would you want to change her… or would you end up thinking you love her just the way she is?
In this rhyming text, a little girl whose granny is (whisper it) a witch, gets fed up with dealing with the problems she creates, so she tries to reform her, but a reformed granny is bored and boring, and maybe it’s more fun to cook up a big pot of gloop with granny’s witchy friends after all.
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Extract:
“My granny’s kind of different. She cooks this icky soup.
I swear she uses slime and sludge and bits of froggy poop!
I beg her for fish fingers, but Granny shakes her head . . .
“Oh, yuck!” she cries. “How horrible!
Here – drink some gloop instead!”
Tracey says: “I stumbled upon an illustration of a witch and a little girl, and was very drawn to it. It reminded me of how, when I was little, I thought countless old ladies were witches. Then I wondered what it would actually feel like if your granny really was one! Would you be tempted to change her? Probably. But then, I thought, if you did, she wouldn’t be Granny. This was a dilemma the little girl in the story helped me solve. This story, I feel, has humour and quirkiness, just like Nosy Crow! I’m confident that it has found its perfect home.”
Kate B says: a really great, rhyming text that tells a terrific and funny story about loving your friends and family regardless of their eccentricities, complemented by 2010 World Book Day illustrator, Joe Berger – this is a magical combination and we can’t wait to publish this super-stylish, fun book with its retro-design and witty storyline.
Grannies come in all shapes and sizes but this little girl has a very unusual granny – but should she try to change her? You’d think that a granny whose pets are cats and frogs and bats; who makes things disappear and who travels on a broomstick would be great fun, but this one is embarrassing! The little girl decides to make her more normal but in the end decides her old granny was much more fun. The catchy rhymes make the story flow and convey the message that different is good – there’s room for us all and we should love people for what they are. To me, the illustrations have a charmingly old-fashioned feel, which echo the sentiment of the book excellently.
Sarah/Parents in Touch Saturday September 17, 2011 #
“full of imagination and a quirky sense of humour – this picture book is inspired by Tracey’s own childhood memory of believing “countless old ladies were witches” …yep, I think a few of us have been there! “
My Book Corner Saturday October 29, 2011 #