Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs

About this book

An autobiographical picture book that gently introduces young readers to the concept of grief.

Tommy, a young child who regularly visits his grandmother and great-grandmother one day finds that his great-grandmother is no longer there. He must then learn to say good-bye.

Subjects

  • abuelas
  • children and death
  • children: grades 1-2
  • children's fiction
  • death
  • death, fiction
  • fiction
  • grandmothers
  • grandparents, fiction
  • great-grandmothers
  • grief for young children
  • juvenile fiction
  • muerte
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • novela juvenil
  • old age
  • old age, fiction
  • picture books
  • schools, fiction
  • vejez