This is a great story about family and what is really important in life! ( )

This book is about a family whose relatives came to visit for the summer. They drove all the way from Virginia. They stayed throughout the summer helping out in the garden, eating the fruits, and just giving out many, many hugs. When it was time to leave, the relatives were sad, but they knew they'd be back next year!

This book was about a family waiting for their relatives from Virginia to come and visit them. The relatives arrived from Virginia and hugged, visited, ate up all their food, slept in their beds, and helped fix things around the house. The relatives finally leave and the house returns to normal, but the young children think that the house is now to quiet and calm. The relatives tell the family that next year they will have the family come down and stay with them in Virginia to eat up all their grapes.

I loved this book. I always had relatives coming in from all over during the holidays or summer vacations. I loved the illustrations in the book and the story is very realistic and easy to relate to.

A great extension idea for this book could be an introduction to geography. In the class the children could share if any of their relatives live in different states. The teacher and students could then discuss where the states are located and how far they are from where the class is.

This story is about the relatives’ trip from the mountains of Virginia to the home of the child telling the story. Each scene shows how the family’s daily life is changed because the relatives are there. The sadness, yet relief, when the visitors go home is a feeling many children understand.
This is a great book about families being together. The pictures are funny and go along with the story.
You could have the students locate Virginia on a map and then learn about some of the foods they grow there. You could also have the students write their own book about a trip they took to a relative’s house.

This is another book that I can remember being read to as a child. It is about a family from Virginia who are going to see their Relatives. They stay for a long time and visit. The illustrations in this book are fabulous because it shows so many details of how family really acts when they are together. The family leaves but they will be back next summer! ( )