Really and Truly: A Story About Dementia
Author(s): Emile Rivard
This simple picture book explores the relationship between Charlie and his grandfather who has developed Alzheimer's and dementia. Charlie used to love his grandfather's stories but now Grandpa has changed and he doesn't tell them anymore. But Charlie still remembers the stories and he has a great idea - he can tell them back to Grandpa. And, just occasionally, he can make Grandpa smile. This book doesn't give you lots of background information about Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia or offer any hope that Grandpa will get better but it gives a child whose grandparent suffers from dementia a way into discussing the changes that are taking place and how they might deal with these. It also offers a moving insight into the loving relationship between grandparent and grandchild, which transcends the difficulties of this tragic disease.
Product Information
When Charlie's beloved grandfather develops dementia, Charlie finds a new way to communicate with him. This moving story gives children a way discuss this tragic disease when it affects one of their relatives.
Really and Truly is one of those books that parents hope they will never need, but it's a must-have for any family dealing with a loved one suffering from dementia...will leave adult readers teary, but will be especially poignant, relevant, and helpful for parents struggling to put dementia into terms that younger children can understand. -- Blake Eligh, Senior Editor at canadianfamily.ca, Quill & Quire
Emilie Rivard studied creative writing at Universite Laval in Quebec City and focused her writing on exploring imagination and creativity. She writes regularly for Les Explorateurs and has written several beloved children's books in French. Anne-Claire Delisle has taught illustration at Cegep de Sainte-Foy in Quebec for more than twenty years. She is the illustrator of the popular French children's series Pomme et Pepin.
General Fields
- :
- : Hachette Children's Group
- : Franklin Watts Ltd
- : 0.12
- : 01 June 2014
- : 220mm X 220mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Emile Rivard
- : Paperback
- : Anne-Claire Deslisle
- : 843.92
- : 24
- : chiefly Illustrations (colour)
