great-grandmothers

One night, little Bill is positive there are mean things in his dark closet and that they are just dying to get him. Only when Alice the great performs a magical tucking-in trick do the mean things go away for good.

While his great-grandmother seeks her deceased husband, ten-year-old Malcolm and his best friend Dandy have no trouble finding a ghost on which to test Malcolm's latest gadget--a ghost zapper.

Thembi and her beloved great-grandmother, who has not left the house for many years, go together to vote on the momentous day when black South Africans are allowed to vote for the first time.

Even though Great-grandma speaks very little English and Baru?ka does not speak Czech, they enjoy a very special afternoon together while baking and looking at old photographs.

Neema's struggle to complete an essay on the topic "Who Am I" for her freshman English class is complicated by the arrival of Kampala, her Indian great-grandmother who has come to Australia chasing her dream of flying, and although they do not speak the same language, the two find common ground in skateboarder Gull Oliver.

After her great-grandmother's death, a young girl learns about heaven by asking her mother all kinds of questions.

Seven-year-old Christine spends Christmas Eve helping her great-grandmother decorate her tree and sharing the story of a very special ornament that came from Romania many years before.

At Christmastime, William has to leave behind his cherished train set when his family goes to visit William's frightening great-grandmother.

A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death.