
Illus. in full color. "In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa clearly exudes the message that you're only as old as you feel,
老爺爺年輕的時候是一個歌舞演員,一天,他帶孫子們上閣樓,穿上擱藏已久的歌舞服裝,表演年輕時代的歌舞絕活。
三個小孩子在閣樓上看爺爺表演昔日在雜耍團表演的節(jié)目,閣樓里蘊藏著爺爺對昔日時光的甜美回憶。孩子們在和爺爺相處的過程中第一次見到了爺爺?shù)谋硌?,他們不但更崇拜這位家中的明星,也更了解爺爺?shù)倪^去。雖然這個故事只是描寫一個生活中的小樂趣,但卻呈現(xiàn)出祖孫兩代間樂融融的情感。