Family & Grandparent Stories
Family & Grandparent Stories holds the personalized books Wild Time Comics & Stories makes for the people a child is related to — mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles — printed in Attleboro, Massachusetts and addressed by name.
The premise across the shelf is constant and the tone is not. Several are affectionate inventories: what a grandmother actually does, what a grandfather's real superpowers turn out to be, the accumulated evidence that a parent is the best one. Others are letters that never got said out loud, written in a child's voice to an adult who would deflect the compliment if it arrived any other way.
They go out most often for Mother's Day, Father's Day and birthdays, and just as often for no occasion at all — which tends to be when they land hardest. A book arriving on the expected date is doing what the date asks of it. One arriving in an ordinary week is doing something else entirely.
Family & Grandparent Stories is the shelf for the relative who has everything and has never once been thanked in writing.
