Grandma Stories

A young girl delights in her grandmother's stories of days gone by. Sparked by keepsakes and simple questions, Grandma shares marvelous stories of mischief, discovery, and laughter, such as a beautiful heart-shaped locket and a curl that cost Grandma more than a lock of hair.

These tales recount humorous and poignant memories from Grandma Mabel's childhood. Combining the warmth and spirit of Little House on the Prairie with a Christian focus, these books transport listeners back to a simpler time to learn lessons surprisingly relevant in today's world.

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."

From the heart of the Appalachian Mountains come these folktales and folk rhymes for young children. In this recording of timeless children's tales, Davis, one of our most gifted storytellers, weaves for a new generation the same tales his grandmother told him as he sat in her lap so many years ago.

Step inside the room in Grandma's house. What if there was a locked room in our grandparents' house that gave you a glimpse into their past? A mysterious room that held their secrets, their hopes, and their dreams? When Tiffany Warren is sent to pack up her grandmother's house, she finds a locked room on the third floor, but where is the key? After searching the house from top to bottom, she finds the key and opens the door, and what happens next changes her life forever. The Room in Grandma's House is a short, fantasy story of about 12,000 words that can be read in under two hours.

Grandma's house was a magical place, and in this vivid memoir, Donald Davis makes it possible for each of us to go back to our own grandma's kitchen, clutter room, living room, and to that immeasurable bed that seemed to swallow us whole. This selection also contains a traditional story Davis learned from his grandmother, one handed down through his family from generations who once lived in Scotland before coming to the Appalachian mountains, about the time that fortune-seeker named Jack made the king mad.

Babysit a Grandma - Short Story For Kids Using beautifully colored illustrations and characters intended to capture the attention and imagination of young children, this book will show them how they can recognize the seeds of true friendship when looking to start a relationship with their peers in a new environment. This will serve as a useful tool later on in their lives when they’ll need to use their initiative to find genuine and committed alliances to form. GET THIS BOOK NOW AND ENJOY! CLICK BUY NOW BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE!

Adeline De Walt turned out to be a role model for all people over the age of 60, and an inspiration to all of us of any age. Born in Benton County, Iowa in September of 1862, during the Civil War, she would go on to be one of the most admired women of her time. She enrolled in college for the first time in her sixties and starred in her first feature film at age 79. She was cast in such favorites as The Ten Commandments, The Human Comedy, The DuPont Story, Son of Dracula, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, and A Witness to Murder; just to name a few.

What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice - two city slickers from Chicago - make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's, each one funnier and more surprising than the year before.

"Grandma’s Farm" is a heartwarming and enchanting bedtime storybook that invites young listeners to embark on a magical journey to the countryside. Through 15 beautifully illustrated chapters, children are transported to the idyllic setting of Grandma's farm, where they encounter a world filled with wonder, adventure, and timeless life lessons.

Memories of a grandparent spinning tales around animals and mysterious characters have kept many of us rapt till date. Sudha Murty's Grandma’s Bag of Stories is simply delightful. The story starts with Anand, Krishna, Raghu and Meena arriving at their grandparents’ house in Shiggaon. Overjoyed Ajji and Ajja (Grandmother and Grandfather in Kannada) get the house ready, while Ajji prepares delicious snacks for children. Finally, times comes when everyone gathers around Ajji, as she opens her big bag of stories.

A grandmother's love is forever, and her grandchildren are always in her thoughts. This grandma learns that a new grandbaby will soon be arriving. She wants to give her new little one a special gift, but her funds are low, and she is very far away, so she decides to write a book especially for her new little grandchild. Grandma writes down her fairy tales, poems, and songs that she hums softly to herself as she recalls singing them to her other grandchildren.

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for generations. The girls learn how to stack the poles and wrap the canvas covering around them, how to paint spirit pictures on its walls, and how the circle of the tipi tells its own story, reminding us to how to live in the great Circle of Life.

Randall just wanted to have a fun summer vacation with his family, visiting Grandma at her cabin on a lake in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Then everything went horribly wrong. Join 15-year-old Randall, and his younger brother Josh, as they fight for their lives on the eve of an elderly undead apocalypse.

Baby Edward stories are designed to help your children get to sleep at bedtime. Children are drawn in to the rhythmic and melodic nature of the adventure, and as the journey unfolds, so do the tricks to lull the listener to sleep. In this story, the fifth of the series, the young elephants go looking for a secret.

40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.Narrated by Tina Connolly, host of the Parsec-winning podcast Toasted Cake.

Isabella Blankenship is a very special girl who is growing up in the hills of the Appalachia Mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Isabella is faced with many hardships and trials along her journey in life. She must find strength in herself and find faith in her creator. This is a coming-of-age audiobook, and it also focuses on the unseen poverty that is still very much alive for the children of the Appalachia Mountains.

Don't Look Back is a sweet, clean Victorian story. Hannah Dawes loves to paint. She dreams of being a great artist. Her sand sculptures and paintings win her acclaim in her local community of New Beach, New Jersey, but when circumstances take her away from the Jersey shore, she must learn to love the sprawling vistas of High Bend, Colorado. Strangers in a strange land, Hannah and her family travel across the country to live with Hannah's Uncle James, a bachelor rancher whom Hannah has never met. Life on the ranch is hard, and Hannah misses her old home, that is until she starts to pain the ...

Macy hasn’t stepped foot in her grandparent’s house in fifteen years. She should have never come back. Macy’s Grams is old and about to die. Feeling guilt from her mom and the respect she has for her already deceased grandfather, Macy goes back to a place she vowed never to go again. A pleasant memory of a warm summer day turns dark as Macy starts to realize there was always something very wrong with this part of her life. Her last visit to her grandparents’ house puts her face to face with an ancient evil that never wanted to let her go. Will she escape? Step into the portal and ...

Imagine watching your child fall asleep every night with a smile on his face. How would you feel? Research at Yale University has shown that regularly reading bedtime stories to children has extraordinary beneficial effects on their neuronal activity. The language of fairy tales, in fact, represents a gateway to the imaginary world of kids and a powerful tool for teaching them emotions.