Turkish author Özge Bahar Sunar’s lovely gentle picture book, translated by Amy Marie Spangler, is about creating memories across the generations – for Ali’s grandma whose memory is fading and for Ali, the narrator of the story, who now has new memories to treasure as he learns to let go of a loved one. She shows Ali the importance of making and sharing beautiful memories that will live on long after the ones we love are gone. Ali meets Grandma at different ages, watches her grow up, own her own business and get married. Together with Grandma, I travelled into the past.” – but gradually with a little help from Ali, she is soon taking him on a journey through her life. But Ali likes to spend time with his grandmother and when his mum gives him some of Grandma’s old photographs, he sits with her trying to work out who is in the black and white pictures.Īt first, Grandma doesn’t seem to remember or recognise her younger self – “ At that moment I felt as if I were being pulled into the photo.
Country of Origin: Turkey My Grandma's Photos by Ozge Bahar SunarĪli’s grandma is very frail she doesn’t hear or see very well and she gets very confused and often cannot remember things.
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