"Sing to the Moon" by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and Sandra Van Doorn (Lantana Publishing)

It's definitely been a bumper year for children's books that explore their relationship with their grandparents...
Grandparents are a constant source of inspiration, fun and of course fantastic stories as they reminisce about their childhoods - or pass on family tales from generation to generation.

In "Sing to the Moon" by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and Sandra Van Doorn a little boy wakes up from a wonderful dream to find that it's another rainy day - and the prospect of thinking up things to do when it's rotten outside is definitely something that's common across all cultures (as I type up this review, C and I are wondering whether we should brave the drizzly weather and go for a nice muddy welly walk).

The little boy's Jjajja (Grandfather) soon cheers him up, with a nice warming bowl of porridge and a stack of tales about the things he used to get up to as a mischievous boy, rounding the day off perfectly with one of Jjajja's stories from his huge pile of books, marvelling together as the moon fills the night sky under a blanket of stars.

The relationship is beautifully realised through simple and lyrical rhymes, and charming child-friendly illustrations, allowing children's own imaginations to take over. This is one they'll definitely love reading with their own Grandparents, spinning tales together and enjoying each other's company.

"Sing to the Moon" by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and Sandra Van Doorn is out today, published by Lantana Publishing (kindly supplied for review).