Most children don’t understand when an elderly person is grumpy and the children don’t want to be around them.  In this book the little boy doesn’t like to go to grandpa’s house because Grandpa is grumpy and scary.  There is not much to do at Grumpy Grandpa’s house and you have to be quite and careful.

One day Granpa takes the little boy with him to the lake.  You have to be very quite when you fish, so it isn’t much fun.  Then the boy stands up in the boat to run away and they both land in the water.  Grumpy Grandpa starts to laugh.  The boy is surprised.  Grandpa realizes that may be he has forgotten how it is to be little.