Moms and grandmothers will get the most beautiful gifts on May 10th, for sure. What about your children or grandchildren? Did you ever thought that on Mother’s Day you can give to your beloved daughters and nieces, friends’ daughters, grandchildren,  ages of 4-10 memorable and educational gifts? Good books always make elegant and unforgettable cadeaux du coeur (gifts from your heart) for our children, especially if it is a quirky tale about love and family.

Chinese proverb says, “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”  Go to www.amazon.com and order the book, Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away: A Timeless Tale of Love and Family. It will transfer you and your children into a beautiful vineyard in California where a great story happens with an inquisitive baby grape who learns the value of home and family when she runs away from her vine.

Children of the New Earth Magazine wrote about this book, “Children… and their parents will be mesmerized by this unique tale of love and family. This story and engaging colorful illustrations are infused with the charm of the California wine country.”

Don’t you want to make a trip there? You can easily do that without spending too much money on travel. Just  open this book, Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away: A Timeless Tale of Love and Family, A Child Discovering The World  from the award-winning team of author Svetlana Konnikova and illustrator Anatoli Smishliaev, and be transported into the most magnificent, green part of our country.     

                                                           Probably you remember the Wizard of Oz and how Dorothy learns the hard way that “There’s no place like home.” Younger children can hear this message again as they enjoy a charming story based on an ancient French folktale now set in a California vineyard.

Baby Grapette, a tiny green grape in a little green dress, grows bored spending all her time in her mother’s grapevine lap. Grapette’s mother, a French grapevine, tell her children thrilling stories about the world. But she keeps her children close to home, giving them fragrant herb baths and fresh juice to drink. Grapette yearns to see and experience more.

Baby Grapette hatches a plan to get out and see the world. She manages to work free of her vine and roll merrily away across the fields, but– like Curious George–she is too curious. When Mama-Grapevine, who has seen Grapette roll away, calls for help, all of nature–a butterfly, a bird, a hawk, a lightening bolt, a stream complete with a tadpole and several fish, and finally a wood nymph–all try to find Grapette and get back home safely. Natural enemies forget their quarrels to help in the search.

The captivating story and the engaging colorful illustrations are infused with the charm of the California wine country. Children will be attracted to the delightfully detailed drawings, whose lines echo the whimsical curves of a grape vine.

Although Grapette enjoys her adventure, once back home she decides she has seen enough and knows how much she is loved. Children will discover, along with Grapette, that the parents who impose seemingly restrictive routines are the same parents who deeply love their children and want to keep them safe.

Children, adults, natrure lovers and restless adventurers alike will find a sincere message in this endearing modern classic written and illustrated in the rich style of an old European fairy tale.

Dear Moms! This message is for you from Albert Einstein. He said once, “If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tale. If you want them to be brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales.”  Make your children and yourself wonder. Teach them that good actions will always give them strength and inspire the same in others.

Read this book to your children or grandchildren. It provides a lesson about the need to control headstrong impulses and teaches real life values about loving family and home. This story also celebrates the thrill of independence and the joy of running around outdoors in the beauty of nature.  So, bring this book into their lives, raise them to be brilliant and appreciate good book they can remember forever, and pass on to their children.  

By reading this unique book, you will visit a purple and green kingdom–a California vineyard, sparkling with thin, luminiscent threads of sun rays and blowing with a light wind, happy grapevines that carry great quantities of ripe amber, ruby, and rose grapes swollen with sweet juice. The place, I am sure, you’ll want to go in one day. You are curious as Grapette, isn’t it?

“Cute for kids of wine-focused parents.”–Wine Enthusiast Magazine

“A gentle, whimsically illustrated story with a strong underlying warning against running away and making parents worry.”–Children’s Bookwatch, Entrepreneur.com

“An enchanting story.”–Awareness magazine

“I am sure this book, with its inspirational story and whimsical fine art illustrations, will warm the hearts of all the little children who read it or have ir read to them.”–Tatiana Faberge, author, The Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs, and great-granddaughter of Carl Gustavovich Faberge, legendary jeweler and designer to the Russian Imperial Court

Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away: A Timeless Tale of Love and Family  by an award-winning author Svetlana Konnikova and illustrated by Anatoli Smishliaev, Grand Prix Award winner at the International Cannes Movie Festival. ISBN: 9780979175800, 32 pages, 32 illustrations, cloth. Available nationwide and worldwide, on www.amazon.com and from publisher at www.aurorapublishers.com  with 30% discount and a beautiful poster for your child’s room.