Grandparents & Grandchildren

Stories that bottle the magic between grandparents and grandchildren.

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2 enchanted tales to choose from

Grandparents & Grandchildren · Ages 8-10

The Jar of Loose Buttons

Every button in the jar on the dresser fell off something, and if you hold one up to the light your grandparent's whole day comes back around you: a dance hall, a fishing boat, the first coat they ever bought. The child works out the catch too late, that a button which has been used crumbles to dust and its day can never be visited again. With one plain button left they have to choose between a famous family day they have heard about all their life and this ordinary afternoon at the kitchen table, and they put the button down and sit and listen instead.

Made from Finn's real photo

Grandparents & Grandchildren · Ages 5-8

The Recipe With a Missing Word

In Granny's kitchen there is a recipe card older than Dad, written in curly ink and splashed with fifty years of butter, and right in the middle, where the most important word should be, there is a smudge. Granny says the missing word cannot be read, only found, so the child ties on the flour-dusty apron and they hunt for it together: not in the sugar tin, not under the weighing scales, not even in the oven's warm breath. The word turns out to be nothing a pen could ever write. It is the humming while you stir, the taste-test spoonfuls, the waiting done curled in someone's lap. The word is together, and the cake will not rise without it.

Made from Cora's real photo

👵Grandparents & Grandchildren

The Jar of Loose Buttons

The Recipe With a Missing Word

Grandparents & Grandchildren