Grandpa's Scroll

By Ginger Park, Frances Park and Kim Dong Hoon

A scroll that a grandfather plans to finish painting with his granddaughter shows how love can overcome differences and distances.

Lily lives in Washington, DC. Her grandpa lives in Korea. They've never met but are good pen pals. Just when he is about to visit Lily in the U.S., Grandpa dies. Lily and her mom fly to Korea, where they uncover the rice paper scroll Grandpa had hoped to finish painting with Lily. To honor his wish, Lily writes a poem about her grandfather that sits just below his poem about her, so that in the end, they have finished it together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Release date: May 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9780807530214

Ginger Park

Ginger Park is a Korean American author of many children's books. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award, the IRA-CBC Teachers’ Choice Award, the Notable Books for a Global Society Award, the Paterson Prize Book Award for Young Readers, and the Bank Street Book Award, among others. She lives in a suburb of Washington, DC.

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