Reviewed by Me for Kids @ TeensReadToo.com

My children thoroughly enjoyed this book. As young grape spends time with his grandfather, raisin, they're both treated to some wonderful lessons.

"If I weren't here to be nervous, you might climb too high and fall," Grandpa Raisin cautions the tree-climbing Grape.

When Grape rescues grandpa from the talkative prune, the raisin kindly whispers, "You saved me again."

As grape says, at the end of the story, "When I'm a raisin, I want to be just like YOU--except king!"

A truly entertaining and thoughtful bedtime story. ( )

This book has some potential as a grandfather-grandchild read-aloud. I like the colors, but this book is nothing to write home about. ( )

Age Appropriateness: Primary
Genre: Fiction
Media: Acrylics
Charactarization: Grandpa is a flat and static character. He does not change throughout the book and we do not know much about him. The entire book is a brief dialogue between Grandpa Grape and his grandson Raisin. There is very little development of characters throughout the book.
Review: This is a good example of fiction because although it is impossible for a grape and a raisin to talk to each other the book makes it seem possible. ( )

I hate this book. No, really, hate it. All other considerations aside, that grandfather looks more like a purple piece of poo than a raisin. Yuck. ( )