The Granddaughter Necklace

By Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline              (Arthur A. Levine Books – New York in 2013)

A girl receives a necklace from her mother, and then the story of the necklace moves backward as telling how passed the necklace from the previous generation. It connect several generations of women through the passing down of the necklace. Wherever the old owners lived in, whenever epoch they belong to, and whatever life they had, the gifted necklace love between mother and daughter is never changed. Inspired by the author’s own experience.

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絵本作家自身の体験を基に、母から娘に引き渡されたネックレスの物語。自分の母の話から、ベージ毎に世代がさかのぼり、写実的で温かみのあるイラストはそれぞれの時代を描き出している。住む場所が変わっても、時代が変わっても、娘の人生で大事な時に、愛と勇気を込めて引き継いできたネックレスが、永遠の乙女心の輝きを放っている。母と娘に贈りたい素敵な絵本。