Nana, Nenek & Nina
written and illustrated by
Liza Ferneyhough
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Imprint
Dial
ISBN
9780593353943
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Nina loves visiting her two faraway grandmas—one in Malaysia and one in England. Spot the differences between their homes in this beautiful picture book.
Nina lives in San Francisco with her parents, and she loves visiting her two grandmas across the world. Follow Nina as she travels to England to visit Nana and to Malaysia to visit Nenek. Nina needs different kinds of clothes and plays different kinds of games in each place. Nana and Nenek cook different kinds of food. And Nina’s day looks different in each grandma’s house. But so much about each visit is the same: Nina brings her whole self with her across the world, from England to Malaysia, and both of her grandmas love her to San Francisco and back.
Full-color illustrations were created with watercolor and crow quill dip pen then edited digitally.
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Details
Format
Page Count
32
Trim Size
11" x 8 1/2"
Dewey
E
AR
3.1: points 0.5
Lexile
AD540L
Genre
Fic
Scholastic Reading Counts
0
JLG Release
Oct 2022
Book Genres
Picture Book
Topics
Grandmothers. Family life. England. Malaysia.
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School Library Journal
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PreS-Gr 1—Nina, who is around age five or six, has one grandma in Malaysia and another in England, and gets to visit both in this clever same-and-different book that is Ferneyhough's debut. Images of Nina's home "in-between" the grandmas show the Golden Gate bridge; she flies toward the sunrise for one visit, and toward the sunset for the other. Differences abound, but spotting similarities is also fun and instructive. Food is mostly different but a little similar; sand is the same; temperatures are different; the moon is the same. The most important similarity is the feeling Nina has for her grandmothers, and they have for her. The detailed but clearly drawn illustrations show Malaysian art, English teacups, and American guitars. Mama and Nenek are light brown; Dad and Nana are pale; no one is idealized. Speech bubbles contain short duplicated phrases in Nenek's Malay and Nana's English (with pronunciation help for some words). Even Nana's English isn't the same as American English! VERDICT Nina's comfort in very-far-apart places, her facility with languages, and her love for family mean that this engaging book will widen the world for young listeners and their families, no matter their locations or origins.—Patricia Lothrop
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