Grandma Loves You Because You're You

Grandma’s love for you is so special. I love everything that we do. I want you to always remember — Grandma loves you because you’re you. Grandma Loves You Because You’re You by Liza Baker, illustrated by David McPhail, is the sequel that grandmothers will cherish forever — a return to the world of Little Fox, only this time spent in the most magical place a grandchild can be: a day with Grandma. From making delicious pancake breakfasts together and flipping through old photo albums, to singing that special song and baking cookies exactly the Grandma way, this endearing story takes the reader through every one of the special, irreplaceable moments that make a grandmother’s love feel unlike any other love in a child’s world. With the same sweet rhyming text and heartwarming David McPhail illustrations that made I Love You Because You’re You a beloved classic, this is the perfect book for fans of the original — and the most meaningful gift a grandchild has ever been able to give, or receive, from the grandmother who loves them most.

Book Details

• Title | Grandma Loves You Because You’re You
• Author | Liza Baker
• Illustrator | David McPhail — the award-winning illustrator of I Love You Because You’re You
• Publisher | Cartwheel Books / Scholastic
• Publication Date | July 2018
• Format | Board book — 20 pages, 6¾ x 8 inches
• Series | Sequel to the bestselling I Love You Because You’re You
• Characters | Little Fox and Grandma Fox — a grandchild and grandmother sharing the most special, most memory-making day imaginable
• Story Moments | Pancake breakfast together, flipping through old photo albums, singing that special song, and baking cookies Grandma-style
• Age Range | Ages 0–12 months through 3 years — a perfect read-aloud for grandchildren and grandmothers of every age
• Theme | The singular, irreplaceable love between a grandmother and grandchild — a love that is its own special kind, completely its own, and always because you’re you

Why Kids and Grandmas Love It

• The grandmother-grandchild love story of Grandma Loves You Because You’re You captures something that no other children’s book in this collection has yet attempted — the specific, singular quality of a grandmother’s love, which is different from a parent’s love not in degree but in kind, a love that arrives with pancakes on weekend mornings and photo albums pulled from shelves and songs sung in a particular voice and cookies made in a particular way that no one else has ever quite replicated, the kind of love that children absorb through moments rather than declarations and remember for the rest of their lives with a clarity and a warmth that the most beautifully chosen words can only begin to describe
• The return of Little Fox as the central character gives Grandma Loves You Because You’re You a narrative continuity and an emotional resonance that makes it the perfect companion to the original — fans of I Love You Because You’re You will immediately recognize the world, the characters, and the David McPhail illustration style they already love, now applied to a story with a different but equally profound love at its center, making the sequel feel less like a separate book and more like a natural, necessary continuation of Little Fox’s world of being completely and unconditionally loved
• The specific story moments — pancake breakfast, old photo albums, that special song, Grandma-style cookies — are the details that make Grandma Loves You Because You’re You feel genuinely true rather than generically sweet, because every grandchild who hears them will recognize their own grandmother’s version of those exact moments, and every grandmother who reads them will feel seen in the particular, irreplaceable way that only the most carefully observed love stories achieve

Perfect For

• Grandchildren from birth through age 3 and the grandmothers who love them — a Liza Baker and David McPhail board book with heartwarming illustrations, sweet rhyming text, and a grandma-loves-you-because-you’re-you message that is as true and as cherished on the hundredth reading as it is on the very first pancake morning
• A perfect Mother’s Day gift, Grandparents’ Day gift, grandmother’s birthday gift, and any-occasion keepsake for grandmothers everywhere — and the ideal companion to I Love You Because You’re You for families who want to give both generations of Little Fox’s love story and the complete Baker-McPhail world of because-you’re-you love in a single, beautifully considered gift
• Flipping albums, singing songs, baking cookies, and always, always remembering — pancake by photo album, Little Fox by Grandma Fox — the most grandmother-cherishing, most memory-making-moment-perfect, most because-you’re-you grandchild love story in the boutique