{"id":277604,"date":"2010-02-04T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:28:50","slug":"our-grandparents-a-global-album-by-maya-ajmera-sheila-kinkade-cynthia-pon-with-a-foreword-by-archbishop-desmond-tutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277604","title":{"rendered":"Our Grandparents: A Global Album by Maya Ajmera, Sheila Kinkade, Cynthia Pon with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/our-grandparents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8809\" title=\"Our Grandparents\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/our-grandparents.jpg?w=128&#038;h=100\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Pictures tell a thousand words &#8230; although really, no words could adequately capture the love between generations, especially between grandparents and their grandchildren. Just look at this cover &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This heartwarming title begins with all the different ways to say &#8220;Grandfather&#8221; and &#8220;Grandmother&#8221; throughout the world, with an assortment of caring pictures to illustrate that special multi-generational bond. Then the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu steps in with wise words of loving wisdom: &#8220;Grandchildren are a wonderful gift. They allow us to see the world, once again, through the eyes of a child. &#8230; Their joyful innocent awakes the child in us and gives us hope for the future.&#8221; He also offers gentle reminders: &#8220;As grandparents we also bear important responsibilities. &#8230; If we do our job well, our grandchildren will grow to have open minds and open hearts. &#8230; The love and support we give our grandchildren helps safeguard their future \u2013 and makes the world a better place.&#8221; Oh, if only if were that easy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A co-production of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfundforchildren.org\/\" >Global Fund for Children<\/a>, the three authors honor grandparents throughout the world, offering a book-end spread of &#8220;Five Things to Do with Your Grandparents&#8221; to strengthen bonds. Also included is a map of the world, with the represented countries colored in &#8230; images originating from Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, and Southeast Asia are disappointingly sparse. A bit more diversity would certainly have found greater appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>That said, with all the racially-divided hardships and historical challenges Americans have faced (and continue to face), only in America (at least amidst these images) can you find a picture of a Caucasian grandmother holding her clearly mixed African American granddaughter. As the parents of young hapa children, that certainly spoke to me as a welcoming sign of making the world a better place &#8230; \u00a0truly the future is with our children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children (and their grandparents!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2010<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8811\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=bookdragon.si.edu&#038;blog=6730168&#038;post=8811&#038;subd=bookdragonreviews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures tell a thousand words &#8230; although really, no words could adequately capture the love between generations, especially between grandparents and their grandchildren. Just look at this cover &#8230; This heartwarming title begins with all the different ways to say &#8220;Grandfather&#8221; and &#8220;Grandmother&#8221; throughout the world, with an assortment of caring pictures to illustrate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}