ISBN: 0-88739-420-5
28 pp.
Size: 7 x 10
Pub Date: 7/2001
Paperback Reprint
Price: $8.95
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How Does It Feel To Be Old?
Norma Farber, Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Verse of an elderly woman answering the title question asked by her granddaughter. Old age is privilege; she can do what she wants without anyone's approval. And it's also memories of her youth, coming back through a gossamer filter of time. Being old is quietly yearning for the halcyon summer days of childhood. With age too comes resignation that life is soon to end-or have some unknown beginning. In her way, the grandmother says good-bye, though the little girl will carry her always in her thoughts and heart.
Have you noticed, I'm shorter, almost, than you?
I'm shrinking, you're stretching. What else is new?
Well, sun keeps rising
Journeys of planets continue intact.
Wind keeps blowing,
Sky stays wide.
Soon you'll be knowing
That Grandma has died
While you are still growing
In inches and pride.
Review: "[A] book filled with love."
-The New York Times
"A beautiful and fulfilling picture of old age."
-The Baltimore Sun
"A...book for grandparents and grandchildren to share."
-The Boston Sunday Globe
"...drawings that breathe lifelike detail"
-Booklist
Bio: NORMA FARBER was a concert singer as well as a poet.
TRINA SCHART HYMAN is a world-renowned illustrator and artist.
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