When I Was Little Like You - Jill Paton Walsh

When I was Little like you A very sweet book, focusing on the differences and similarities between things in the past and things today, and the relationship between a grandma and grandchild. ~~Story and Illustrations~~ The story starts with Rosie pointing and showing gran the train, and as they sit watching the train travelling through the countryside, the next double page spread shows a steam engine and gran as a little girl; the train is described, and so children begin to learn that trains were different. They then see an ice cream van, and gran describes the man on the bicycle who sold ice cream when she was a little girl. ...  Read the complete review