Ruddy's grandmother isn't much fun. She calls him Rudford, not Ruddy, and she doesn't like noise or games or television. When Ruddy's parents go on a cruise and leave him with Grandmother Silk, Ruddy knows it's going to be a "loooong" ten days.
Then one night a snowstorm comes howling through. Ruddy and his grandmother are left without light and heat and water-and they have no one to talk to but each other. Slowly, with the help of an old chessboard, the moon, and a gorilla suit, they reach out to each other in some surprising ways.
Partly a survival story, this is mostly a tale of two people who think they aren't alike at all—until they have no choice but to look for the things they have in common.
75 pages, with full-page colour illustrations on some of the double-page spreads.
An ALA Notable Book; a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; A Center for Children's Books Gryphon Honor Book.
Condition: near fine.
Published by Puffin Books, Penguin Young Readers.
