90s kid book, grandma and kid have a day out, but they can secretly fly.

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90s kid book, grandma and kid have a day out, but they can secretly fly.

1koalabanjo
sep 23, 2023, 8:16 pm

They have a day out; they feed the giraffes (way up high because they can fly) and they get ice cream. It seems no-one notices that they can fly and the rest of the family can’t/don’t acknowledge it. (I feel like at some point another child on the street sees/notices but the kids mom just pulls them along?).
It’s a kids book and has pictures, but it’s not a true picture book. (Writing is a paragraph or two at a time).
I hope someone can help, this really feels like a fever dream but I told my mom and she too vaguely recalls.
Ty!!

2koalabanjo
okt 1, 2023, 4:51 pm

Anyone?

3bookel
Bewerkt: okt 2, 2023, 8:00 am

Colour illustrations? So for upper primary school age, 9-12 age range? Some picture books do have more text and are still called picture books. Eg. Books by Graham Oakley.
Is she called grandma in the story?
Early or late 1990s? New or older?
A year range helps when searching worldcat.org.
Is the kid a boy or girl?
My first thought was the Super gran books. But think they are chapter books.

4beyondthefourthwall
okt 2, 2023, 11:35 am

Wild guess, but it sounds like the sort of thing Elvira Woodruff might have written.

5ysdir
okt 30, 2023, 4:34 am

The first book that came to mind was No Flying in the House by Betty Brock.

62wonderY
okt 30, 2023, 7:44 am

Abuela is an imagined day of flying with her Spanish grandma.

7koalabanjo
mei 16, 1:54 pm

>3 bookel: not Graham Oakley, but similar painted imagine and yes in color. It’s definitely a picture book, not chapters as the pictures take primary focus on each page. She is Called grandma, I feel like the child is a girl but that could just have been child-me projecting that on the character. I had it as a young kid 6-10 and I was born in ‘94. It could have come out before that but not after 1999 would be my guess.

8koalabanjo
mei 16, 1:55 pm

>4 beyondthefourthwall: not Elvira, those are all too long/more chapter book than the one I’m looking for

9koalabanjo
mei 16, 1:55 pm

>5 ysdir: not this on, but a great book!

10koalabanjo
mei 16, 1:57 pm

>6 2wonderY: not this one, but good suggestion. The book I am thinking of is not Spanish at all

112wonderY
Bewerkt: mei 16, 2:57 pm

The Flying Grandmother comes up, but no cover image. I’ll try googling it.