My Grandma's a Ninja

Description

When Ethan's grandma suggests they take a zip line to school, Ethan realises that his grandma is a little different. In fact, she's a ninja! Ethan is soon the hit of the school when his grandma drops from the ceiling at show-and-tell, and teaches the kids karate moves and how to do backflips in slow motion. But when his grandma deflates his team's soccer ball, everyone is upset-including Ethan. Why can't he just have a regular grandma? But when Ethan tries out his new karate moves during the championship game ...he's happy that his grandma isn't ordinary.

Todd Tarpley is a former ninja who still enjoys covering himself in mud and leaves. He is the author of several picture books including "Ten Tiny Toes" with Marc Brown. He lives with his relatively normal family in New York City. You can visit him at toddtarpley.com. Danny Chatzikonstantinou was born in 1973. He illustrates children's books and sometimes writes the words, too. He learned his craft by drawing on napkins at first. Later on, he moved to sketch pads and notebooks. Now he has a full set of sharpened pencils and tons of blank drawing paper that he never uses because he moved back to napkins again. Danny is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Athens, Greece.

"My Grandma's a Ninja is a silly children's picturebook about a young boy whose grandma is a black-clad ninja! At first it seems amazing that she can leap through the air and teach his friends karate moves, but there are drawback. She deflates the soccer ball with one kick, and when she has him put mud and leaves on himself for camouflage, he gets in trouble with his mom. Can he persuade his Grandma to tone down her ninja-ness without hurting her feelings? Or does she have something completely different in mind? Exuberant color illustrations add just the right dose of whimsy to this playful story."-- "Midwest Book Review"