Book Descriptions
for Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng and Ange Zhang
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Helen has to adjust to changes in her household when Gong Gong, her grandfather from China, comes to live with her family. Gong Gong can’t speak any English, nor can Helen speak Chinese. So it’s difficult for them to communicate. Worse, she has had to give up her back bedroom, so she can no longer watch the passing trains from her window. But Helen soon learns that Gong Gong is also a train watcher, and the two find they can enjoy counting the cars together, in both English and Chinese. Several Chinese words, including the numbers one to eight, are naturally incorporated into this moving story of a bicultural, biracial family. (Ages 4-8)
CCBC Choices 2001. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Helen's grandfather Gong Gong comes to live with the family, but speaks no English, and keeps to himself reading Chinese newspapers. But one day Helen goes outside to watch a train go by and Gong Gong joins her. Together they count the cars and discover how many things they share. Full-color illustrations.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.