Grandad’s Wheelies

When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last.

When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last.

When Jack visits his grandparents, there’s no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there’s no technology or modern distractions at all. But he still likes to visit, because Grandad and Granny tell him stories - each trying to outdo the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last.

Did you ever hear about the dragon of Waitemata harbour? Or the bridge between the North and South islands? Or why the Beehive is round in shape - and who REALLY made the Marlborough Sounds?

And then there’s the pumpkin larger than a garden shed, and a wheelbarrow that converts into a boat for a seasick kangaroo. There are lost false teeth, eels and the ingenious invention of the world’s first rotary clothesline helicopter … and a flying train that touches down at the station in Nelson.

With equally wild watercolour illustrations throughout by Bob Kerr, Grandad’s Wheelies is a hilarious, rollicking yarn stitching together a picture of life in New Zealand a couple of generations back that is just about true.

Jack can’t get enough of his Grandad and Granny’s stories - and readers young and old will love them too!