Paul Mackie - Early childhood educator & author.
Helping grandparents create lasting memories with their grandkids.
Heartwarming Storytimes for Grandparents & Grandchildren
These picture books are crafted for you to share special moments with your grandchildren—gentle tales that teach love, kindness, and life’s little lessons through the eyes of caring grandparents.
The Grandparent Legacy Story Series
THE ICE CUBE FAMILY
Where Do Ice Cubes Go
When They Melt?
A heartwarming story about love, transformation, and the cycle of life.
In Where Do Ice Cubes Go When They Melt?, grandparents and children explore the concepts of change, resilience, and connection.
Through gentle storytelling and delightful characters, this storybook helps young children understand that love stays with us—even when things change.
This book gently introduces life’s natural transitions in a way that feels safe and comforting, without mentioning difficult topics like death—making it a beautiful story for shared reading between generations.
✅ Helping Children Understand Life Changes: Children learn that change is natural and can lead to new beginnings—just like when ice melts and becomes part of something new.
✅ Building Resilience Together: Icy and the Ice Cube Family model strength, optimism, and emotional support as they face transformation with courage and care.
✅ Strengthening Bonds Through Love and Connection: Grandparents can share the message that love continues even through change, creating lasting memories through this shared story.
✅ Using Gestures and Body Language: Simple body language cues help children express their feelings while reinforcing love, security, and connection.
✅ Encouraging Open-Ended Exploration: This story opens the door for reflection and child-led conversations about emotions, curiosity, and what comes next.
👉 Perfect for bedtime reading, emotional support,
and meaningful conversations.
📘 Available in Print and Kindle editions.
THE ICE CUBE FAMILY
Icy Learns About Love and Compassion
A gentle story that shows children what it means to care, connect, and express love.
In Icy Learns About Love and Compassion, grandparents and grandchildren follow Icy as he discovers what it means to show love—not just through words, but through simple actions and body language.
This heart-centered story helps children recognize how small gestures, kindness, and connection can express big feelings.
It’s a powerful way for grandparents to pass on values and build emotional understanding together.
✅ Teaching Through Storytelling and Play: Grandparents can model empathy and love as they read, showing children how feelings are shared with actions.
✅ Strengthening Emotional Bonds:Through holding hands, sharing a hug, or giving a thumbs-up, children see that love is something we do, not just something we say.
✅ Building Emotional Vocabulary: Encourages children to name their feelings and recognize how their actions affect others.
✅ Promoting Repetition for Deeper Learning: The story’s rhythm and structure help young children understand and remember emotional lessons through repeat readings.
📘 Available in Print and Kindle editions.
How Grandma & Grandpa Learned to Read
A heartfelt story about sharing wisdom, love, and the joy of learning to read.
This special storybook allows grandparents to pass on their wisdom and life lessons while helping children learn to read in a playful, engaging way.
Through storytelling and coloring pictures, children are introduced to phonetic reading — a joyful contrast to how their grandparents first learned to read.
✅ Encourages grandparents to share stories and reading time.
✅ Supports children in learning to read through storytelling and coloring.
✅ Creates lasting memories built on love, literacy, and laughter.
✅ Ideal for shared reading and intergenerational connection.
📘 Available in Print and Kindle editions.
Coming Soon
A heartfelt story about sharing wisdom, love, and the joy of learning to read.
A playful grandparent-grandchild story that brings movement, laughter, and learning together.
Through Gordy’s journey, children are encouraged to move their bodies, helping them build gross motor skills like balance, coordination, and jumping.
In Gordy’s Mountain Moves, grandparents and grandchildren go on a fun-filled adventure that encourages movement and whole-body play.
As children hop, crawl, and balance with Gordy, they build essential physical coordination, while having fun with Grandma or Grandpa by their side — while grandparents enjoy a joyful way to connect and support healthy growth.
This story offers a perfect blend of bonding and physical activity, giving grandparents an opportunity to be part of their grandchild’s physical and emotional development.
✅ Encourages playful movement and whole-body coordination.
✅ Supports gross motor skills like balance, jumping, and crawling.
✅ Ideal for active storytime and grandparent-led movement breaks.
✅ Based on child development principles that support brain-body growth.
✅ Great for indoor play, rainy-day energy, or before quiet reading time.
Coming Soon
Teaching Kids About: Emotions
A Story for Grandparents Using Gestures and Love
This heartwarming storybook gives grandparents a loving way to help grandchildren explore their emotions and help children understand their feelings, build empathy, and express emotions in healthy, kind ways.
Using gentle storytelling and simple hand gestures, this book invites grandparents to nurture their grandchild’s emotional growth with compassion.
This book is perfect for quiet reading time, cuddled up together, sharing stories that help children name and navigate their feelings.
✅ Helps children recognize and express emotions.
✅ Teaches kindness, empathy, and compassion through stories.
✅ Simple hand gestures make emotional learning fun and memorable.
✅ Builds emotional vocabulary and confidence.
✅ Encourages gentle, meaningful conversations between generations.
🌟 A beautiful way to help grandchildren feel seen, heard, and supported — from the heart of a grandparent.
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