Living With Grandma And Grandpa

Living With Grandma and Grandpa

Jack and Alice's Challenges

When kids can’t live with their parents, the transition can feel scary, confusing, and overwhelming.

Children in kinship care often wrestle with big emotions like anger, guilt, shame, or loneliness — and without support, they may keep it all bottled inside.

That’s what Jack and Alice face when they move in with their grandparents. Their mom is struggling emotionally, and their dad can’t care for them alone. Suddenly, their world is filled with new routines, unfamiliar rules, and feelings they don’t know how to express. Through Gramma Kate’s love and a simple but powerful gardening activity, Jack and Alice begin to name their emotions out loud. Step by step, they learn that it’s okay to feel angry, sad, or scared — and that expressing those feelings is the first step toward healing.

Social Skill Themes Explored:

✅ Adjusting to kinship care when parents struggle with mental health or addiction

✅ Identifying difficult emotions like anger, guilt, shame, and loneliness

✅ Building resilience when life feels different from peers

✅ Developing empathy for other kids with hidden struggles at home

✅ Finding healing and calm through nature

📘 Living with Grandma and Grandpa is a life skills story for children ages 6–12 that helps kids in kinship care — or any child facing a family change — understand their feelings and know that they matter. Perfect for grandparents raising grandchildren, teachers seeking to nurture empathy, and therapists supporting children through transitions and grief.

📖 Why You’ll Love It

8.5" x 8.5" trim size — easy for small hands to hold and teachers to share aloud
32 full-colour pages with engaging illustrations that children love
Durable glossy hardcover (also available in paperback) for long-lasting use
Activity included at the back: Draw Your Flower Garden of Feelings — a creative art project that helps kids express emotions and celebrate their strengths
Helps children process family transitions with compassion and resilience
Encourages open conversations about emotions in safe spaces
Great for therapy sessions, classrooms, or family reading

Hardcover: $29.99 CAD | Paperback: $17.99 CAD

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What Readers Are Saying

This book has inspired children in classrooms, counselling rooms and homes around the world. Here's what teachers, counsellors, and families are saying about Finding Lily's Inner Magic.

This is the second book I've read from this author and once again she does a superb job of inviting children to feel their feelings and yet not be ruled by them, in a story form that never seems like a lecture. Her use of language goes right to the heart, hitting feelings, identifying them, and then using them to grow, just like the garden metaphor throughout the book. While this book is specific to a situation of two children having to live with their grandparents, the deeper lessons of tough stuff will resonate with kids and parents. This is a great book in a great series.

Tim Wright - United States (November 2025)

This book is good for kids that are going through tough times at home and have heavy feelings that they don't know how to deal with. Their grandmother tells them that dark feelings are normal, and all feelings pass like clouds. She had packets of wildflowers she wanted to plant, and she encouraged them to plant them with intention. Some were hope, helpfulness, kindness, etc. that will help them grow in the future, and the soil is like those dark feelings."

Kristy L. - United States (November 2025)

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