Grandpa's Birthday

Sheila Martindale is poetry editor of Canadian Author and Bookman and
author of No Greater Love, her sixth collection of poetry.

This is a textbook dressed up to look like a story book, and the result is a hybrid that is neither one thing nor the other. It fails as a story for several reasons: the story line disappears halfway through; the dialogue is wooden and the illustrations unilluminating; and worst of all, the topic is pedantic and boring. I wouldn’t give it too many points as a textbook either. Schools would be advised not to waste their dollars on this one.