Heather's Reviews > In Grandma's Attic

The way these are written feel very disjointed. It's supposed to be a young girl who spends a lot of time at her grandmother's house and enjoys looking through the old things, like the button basket and the quilts her grandmother made. Each trinket the girl finds has a story attached to it from her grandmother's childhood. Every chapter has a short little blurb about the young girl looking at some piece of fabric or whatnot and then her grandmother get's a far away look in her eyes and launches into the story. This happening over and over was pretty tedious and felt so unnatural. I would have liked it better if it was laid out as a collection of short stories instead or just the whole thing was told from the grandmother's point of view as a child. The young narrator gets no development and I don't even remember her name! A lot of the stories are also strongly Christian faith based so it won't be a great recommendation for everyone but it might be enjoyed by kids who like the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.