I Love My Glam-Ma!

by Samantha Berger, Sujean Rim (Illustrator)

Overview

A celebration of EVERY grandma's glamorous ways — and the special love that glam-mas share with everything they do!

"Glam-mas don't just come over... they make a grand entrance!Glam-mas don't just celebrate holidays... they celebrate everything!Glam-mas don't just carry a purse... they carry a treasure chest!"A joyful celebration of grandmothers who are young at heart, adventurous, and find a bit of glamour in everything they do. Whether these glam-mas are building sandcastles, riding with dolphins, or turning blankets into reading forts and super capes, they live each day with a playful spirit — just like their grandchildren.From the writer of Crankenstein and the illustrator of Birdie's Big-Girl Shoes comes a playful and heartwarming ode to grandmas and grandchildren everywhere... because there's nothing more glamorous than being a grandma.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338151831
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	243,006
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Samantha Berger is the award-winning author of Crankenstein, What If, Snoozefest, Martha Doesn't Say Sorry, and over 80 books for young readers. She also writes cartoons and does voice-overs. Samantha splits her time between New York City and sunny California. Visit her online at samanthaberger.com.
Sujean Rim is the author and illustrator of the Birdie book series, Zoogie Boogie Fever!, Chee-Kee: A Panda in Bearland, and more. She has worked as an illustrator for clients including Tiffany & Co, Target, and the website Daily Candy, and she is working on several design and illustration projects, such as a campaign for UNAIDS. Sujean lives in New York with her favorite artist, husband Bob, and their son, Charlie. Find her online at sujeanrim.com.

Editorial Reviews

09/09/2019

“Everyone knows grandmothers go by many names,” begins Berger. “But MAYBE they should really be called ‘Glam-MA.’ Because Grandmas are some of the most glamorous people you’re ever gonna meet.” What follows is a most joyful celebration of bubbes, nanas, grams, omas, and abuelas that reveres the extra flair they bring to just about everything: “Glam-MAS don’t just come over... they make a grand entrance”; “Glam-MAS don’t follow recipes. They follow their instincts... and let you follow yours.” Rim’s drawings echo the simple lines of fashion illustration, incorporating colors, patterns, and textures that add depth and energy to each page. Together, the artwork and narrative fold in a range of grandmothers, most in Western dress (one rolls in a wheelchair, pushed by a skateboarding child; another attends a rock-and-roll show) and offer the special kind of excitement brought on by a visit from a beloved grandparent. A jubilant and loving ode to grandmothers of every stripe. Ages 3–5. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for I Love My Glam-Ma!:"A most joyful celebration of bubbes, nanas, grams, omas, and abuelas that reveres the extra flair they bring to just about everything... A jubilant and loving ode to grandmothers of every stripe." — Publishers Weekly"Grandmas come in all shapes, sizes, and races in this up-to-date portrait of grandmothers as young-at-heart, active participants in the lives of their grandchildren... Bright, appealing watercolor illustrations are filled with expressive faces, lots of motion, and clever details for kids to find." — Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Monster's New Undies, written by Samantha Berger:"If only every underwear shopping trip ended in such satisfaction." — Kirkus Reviews

"[Berger's] uproarious rhymes, sprinkled with ballooned asides and emphatic capital letters, demand to be read aloud... Sheer monstrous fun." —Booklist

Praise for Crankenstein, written by Samantha Berger:"Berger... has a well-honed sense of comic timing that little kids find hilarious, and Crankenstein, with its many exclamation marks, growls and grumbles should unleash the actor in any adult kind enough to read it aloud." — New York Times

"Whoa. Be prepared for the intense frustrations, the moody outbursts and the green scowls of Crankenstein... Each setting reveals sly comic elements that both kids and their grown-ups will appreciate. Readers will laugh out loud... Get ready to read this aloud a lot. " — Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Zoogie Boogie Fever!, written and illustrated by Sujean Rim:"Rim's exuberant, mixed-media illustrations combine splashy watercolors, cut and torn paper, and photo collage, all in appropriately robust and colorful hues...will have little readers doing free-form boogies of their own." — Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Birdie's Big-Girl Shoes, written and illustrated by Sujean Rim:"The drawings retain a trendy fashion feel through an emphasis on spare lines and heavy patterns, but the playfulness of the details... heightens the appeal for those yearning for more sophistication than what's offered by Jane O'Connor's Fancy Nancy. [Birdie's] conclusion... seems a fine, age-appropriate response, an antidote to any undue expectations that childhood be rushed through. How refreshing." — Booklist

"The bold, stylized watercolor and collage illustrations, paired with spare, simple text, are set against ample white space and burst with bright, attractive textile patterns." — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2019-06-10
Grandmas come in all shapes, sizes, and races in this up-to-date portrait of grandmothers as young-at-heart, active participants in the lives of their grandchildren.

The story begins with an introduction to different names for grandmothers, including Abuela, Bubbe, and Oma before introducing Glam-ma—a term that may need further explanation beyond the text for some children, as "glamorous" isn't a term in regular use by the intended audience. Different grandmas are introduced interacting with grandchildren in all sorts of activities ranging from dress-up play and cooking to karate class and attending a rock concert. The implication in the brief, bouncy text is that attitude is everything and that all these grandmothers are hip, happy, and healthy. Some of the grandmas are quite young, unusual in children's books but a demographically realistic depiction, while others have gray or white hair (but nary a wrinkle). Characters with a wide range of skin tones are represented, including a cover illustration of a white grandma playing dress-up with her brown-skinned grandchildren. One grandmother uses a wheelchair and two use canes, though the canes don't seem to be actually needed for support but rather for artistic effect. Bright, appealing watercolor illustrations are filled with expressive faces, lots of motion, and clever details for kids to find.

Grandmothers with both guts and glamour are sadly underrepresented; these Glam-mas will win lots of fans. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews