Grandma's House of Rules

Some rules... and vases... were just made for breaking!

This is the story of a boy who loves his grandma, but can’t stand all her rules! She has rules for every room in the house – don’t jump on the bed, or leave the loo seat up, or put your elbows on the table.... But there is one rule that is more important than all the others. DON’T touch the big blue and white vase.

When Grandma pops to the shops, the boy does his best to follow the rules, but a terrible domino effect of errors results in the inevitable CRASH! What will Grandma say? With Grandmas you never can tell...

This is a heartwarming tale about forgiving one’s mistakes, and about how some rules are not quite as important as they might seem. Gorgeous pencil illustrations bring the eccentric grandma and her pattern-filled house alive.

Henry Blackshaw is a British artist and illustrator living in Melbourne. His first book, The Inner Child (Cicada, 2019) was received to critical acclaim.

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