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Based on the Webby award-winning Instagram account Drawings for My Grandchildren, this beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the special love shared between grandparents and their grandchildren.

Like many grandparents wishing to stay close to their grandchildren in a world in which so many families are spread across the globe, Korean grandparents Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina, decided to learn how to use Instagram as a way to stay connected. What started as an intimate family project, their Instagram page @drawings_for_my_grandchildren has attracted a large following and their story has been featured in major press around the world. This book inspired by their Instagram page features Chan''s watercolors accompanied by Marina''s texts. Whether it''s to celebrate Astro becoming a big brother to Lua or to share the story of how the grandparents met for the first time and fell in love during their college years, Looking Back Life was Beautiful echoes with the ki

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Heart-warming...imaginative creations * BBC *
Beautiful illustrations... each one comes with a story written by Chan Jae's wife Marina * Lonely Planet *
Pictures capture moments from his day-to-day life, his memories, stories from the news, and more than a few fictional characters * Telegraph *

Looking Back Life Was Beautiful

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    A Hardback by Grandma Marina, Grandpa Chan, Sophie Bowman

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 20/10/2020
      ISBN13: 9780241474600, 978-0241474600
      ISBN10: 0241474604

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Based on the Webby award-winning Instagram account Drawings for My Grandchildren, this beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the special love shared between grandparents and their grandchildren.

      Like many grandparents wishing to stay close to their grandchildren in a world in which so many families are spread across the globe, Korean grandparents Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina, decided to learn how to use Instagram as a way to stay connected. What started as an intimate family project, their Instagram page @drawings_for_my_grandchildren has attracted a large following and their story has been featured in major press around the world. This book inspired by their Instagram page features Chan''s watercolors accompanied by Marina''s texts. Whether it''s to celebrate Astro becoming a big brother to Lua or to share the story of how the grandparents met for the first time and fell in love during their college years, Looking Back Life was Beautiful echoes with the ki

      Trade Review
      Heart-warming...imaginative creations * BBC *
      Beautiful illustrations... each one comes with a story written by Chan Jae's wife Marina * Lonely Planet *
      Pictures capture moments from his day-to-day life, his memories, stories from the news, and more than a few fictional characters * Telegraph *

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