Globetrotting Grandmas

By L.B. Lillibridge and Rian Fetting

While most kids have two grandmas, Laverne has four! This book is only about two of them--Gammy and Grandma Terry, a lesbian couple who travel the world and have all kinds of wacky adventures. Follow the Globetrotting grandmas to Africa, Antarctica, Cuba, Paris, and the International Space Station. 35 pages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Furtive Grunion Books
• Release date: Nov 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781951513030

L.B. Lillibridge

LB Lillibridge wants every child to be able to see themselves in a book. After publishing two memoirs and co-editing an anthology for adults, Lillibridge turned her pen to children's fiction. Zhe is the author of Globetrotting Grandmas, the founder of Furtive Grunion Books, and a mentors queer writers through AWP's Writer to Writer program.

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Globetrotting Grandmas

Globetrotting Grandmas

L.B. Lillibridge

Illustrated by

Rian Fetting

Furtive Grunion Books

Contents

Introduction

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Chapter 1

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2. The Grandmas Go to Africa

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3. The Grandmas Go to Cuba

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4. The Grandmas go to Paris

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Chapter 5

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Further Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Illustrator

Introduction

My name is Laverne, and I’m eight years old. My mom named me after some old TV show. It’s a kind of a weird name, but I like it. The TV Laverne lives with her best friend and they get into all sorts of crazy situations. I get into zero crazy situations. Not even one. Not yet, anyway. But you know who does? My Grandmas.

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First of all, I have a lot of Grandmas. I mean a lot. My dad’s parents got divorced and remarried, so he has a mom and a stepmom. That’s two Grandmas for me. Plus, my mom grew up with two moms instead of a mom and dad. Grandma Mae and Grandma Terry have been married to each other for over forty years. So I have four grandmas. My mom calls them my grandma gang.

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It may sound confusing, but it’s really cool at Christmas and my birthday. Don’t worry—you don’t have to remember all those people. This book is only about two of them: Gammy and Grandma Terry.

When I was little, I couldn’t say Grandma Mae very well. I said gam-mae, and now everyone calls her Gammy. Gammy loves books and used to be a librarian. She walks with a cane.

Grandma Terry used to be a Girl Scout camp counselor and is really great at music and art. She always wears cargo pants with a lot of pockets to put things in. They live right down the street from me in a little house with four cats when they aren’t off on an adventure.

Gammy and Grandma Terry travel somewhere new every year. I feed their cats while they are gone. I can’t have a cat at home since my brother is allergic, but taking care of my Grandmas’ cats is almost as good. My grandmas have been to Africa, France, Cuba, and a bunch of other places too.