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Aunt Minnie McGranahan
by Mary Skillings Prigger (Illustrator: Betsy Lewin)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Clarion Books (1999-03-22)
ISBN: 039582270X
EAN: 9780395822708
UPC: 046442822701
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 40 pages
SKU: 9AC1-074-8-0708
Condition: G
Comments: EX-LIBRARY with typical stickers and markings; Protective mylar cover attached by yellowing tape; Clean body of text; Dust jacket shows very slight shelfwear; Corners and ends of spine very lightly bumped; Pages bright and tight. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
When Aunt Minnie McGranahan inherits nine orphaned nephews and nieces, the neighbors think it will never work. Aunt Minnie is small and tidy, and she lives alone in a neat little house. She has a neat little garden and a neat little barn, and she has a system for everything. Certainly there's no place in her life for children. But Aunt Minnie is a problem solver, and she surprises everyone by bringing home all nine children and coming up with clever new systems to accommodate her expanded family. It turns out Aunt Minnie likes children after all! This funny, fresh story, told in verse and accompanied by whimsical watercolors, is based on the life of the real Aunt Minnie, a member of the author's family who adopted nine children in 1920.
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Customer Reviews
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Nieces love this one, but it makes me cry
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-02-17
This is just what you expect, a sweet story about a woman with her huge passel of inherited kids. My nieces love the story, and request it often, but every time I get to the part where nobody has to wait for a hug, I start tearing up. And they fall once I find out that *sniff* every kid comes back with their family to visit when they're grown-up.
Oh well. It's the happy kind of tears, anyway.
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Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-11-25
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
My family enjoyed the book very much. We live right across the road from where the General Store use to be in St. Clere, Kansas and are familiar with the McGranahan family. My kids are 32, 28 and 17 years old. We knew four of the nine children that Aunt Minnie raised, so this made the books more interesting. We also enjoyed Aunt Minnie and the Twister. Both books made very interesting Christmas presents for kids. Keep the stories coming.
Barbara A. Abitz (address Emmett, Kansas but our hearts say we're from St. Clere, Kansas)
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Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-11-05
This was an excellent book. A very true warm hearted story that describes where there is a will there is a way. The author has created a story from memories that are worth hearing about. I look forward to many more Aunt Minnie McGranahan memories..You see my maiden name was McGranahan and I to grew up near the town of St.Clere Kansas and I still live close by. I thank you Mary for sharing with readers stories of my family name.
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Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-09-29
A wonderful, warmhearted, funny story. Only Mary Skillings Prigger could tell this true story of nine children being orphaned as a delightful tale of how their loving, no-nonsense aunt reared them. And surely only aunt Minnie could have done it. We are hoping for more books from Prigger and Lewin!
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Silly and touching...Children of all ages will love it!
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-05-16
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Aunt Minnie lives by herself. She has her own system of doing things. Suddenly, she must take in her orphaned nieces and nephews. Aunt Minnie is able to tame this brood with her system. A system that is silly and touching at the same time. This book would be a great gift for a favorite aunt.
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