This book is about Louis and his grandmother. He starts by telling us all about his grandmother and all the things he loves about her. Then his grandma passes away, and leaves everyone a not. He finds others notes, but can't find his, which upsets him as he feels forgotten. In the end he gets her old rocking chair, and once he is grown up his child finds the note in the chair, which makes him happy. This is a very sweet book, and is a great read aloud book for kindergarten age students.

"In this loving, warmly sentimental tale an old man fondly remembers his childhood days with his grandmother. Louis may be blind but that doesn’t stop him from sniffing out Gran, with her bleach-and-lilac scent, wherever she may be hiding, or playing “touch your nose” with her and a mirror, or listening to her “molasses voice” as she reads aloud, sitting in a favorite hickory chair. When Gran dies, Louis’s family gathers to reminisce, and learns from her will that she’s hidden notes in the possessions she wanted specific people to have. Endowed with what Gran always called “blind sight,” Louis proves best at finding those notes—but not one is addressed to him. Given the option to pick anything he’d like to keep, he chooses the chair. Restrained colors and upright, elongated figures give both feelings of dignity and intimacy to Andrews’s (Sky Sash So Blue, 1998) paint and fabric tableaux; facial features are shadowed or indistinct, but the body language clearly expresses the warmth and respect with which this family is bound. On a sweet closing note, the aging Louis finds his own youngest grandchild asleep in that hickory chair, her fist around an old, long-lost message that had been hidden in the padding for so many years. It says that the chair is meant to be his, of course, as he knew all along. A fine story with a theme seldom visited. (Picture book. 6-9)"

This is such a touching story. When the book started, I had no clue that he was blind until Louis said it. I think the author did a great job depicting the love a grandmother has for her grandchildren. I like how they portrayed Louis to be a normal boy and didn’t start out by showing his disability. I was also fascinated with how cool he recognized her by her scent. Definitely was emotional when his grandmother passed, but amazing he was able to share the moments he did when she was still alive. The hickory chair was the ultimate symbol of the memories they shared. This was so beautifully written and even made me forget Louis was blind because I was so captivated with his relationship with his grandmother. ( )

The reader of this book did a fantastic job reading this book. This one might be my favorite. I love that the first thing mentioned in this book was not that Louise was blind. I feel like books that do that can give a message that that is all that matters and that is all the person is. I love that one of the main things the author focuses on is her sense of smell. My favorite thing is the symbolism of the chair and how the note was hidden there. The simple language and short story makes this book suitable for younger audiences. ( )

At first this book confused me. I didn’t notice in the book that the main character was blind until the main character mentioned he had blind sight. I would have not guessed this book was about a child that is blind. It was a good book, however, this book is not my favorite. ( )