Large Print Short Stories For Seniors: 100 Heartwarming Nostalgic Tales from the 1940s–1980s — Illustrated with Memory Prompts and Conversation Starters for Seniors, Families and Caregivers - Couverture souple

Hollis, Margaret E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798180543301

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Some books are read. This one is remembered.

There is a particular kind of story that does something no film, no television programme, and no digital screen has ever quite managed. It sits quietly beside you. It takes you somewhere you have been before — a kitchen that smelled a certain way, a summer that lasted forever, a dance floor on the best night of a decade — and it says: yes. That happened. That mattered. You are not the only one who remembers.

Large Print Short Stories for Seniors is one hundred of those stories.

Written by Margaret E. Hollis — librarian, reading therapist, and lifelong collector of the stories that ordinary people carry — this beautifully crafted collection spans five extraordinary decades: the 1940s through the 1980s. Each story is a warm, literary portrait of everyday life as it was actually lived — not the headline version of history, but the kitchen table version. The bread baking on a Tuesday. The dance in June. The letter that arrived and the one that never did. The ordinary Sunday that turned out to be everything.

This is a large print edition, designed with care for senior readers. Every page is set in 18-point large print Georgia typeface. Every decade section opens with a stunning illustration evoking the sights and textures of that era. The book is — a reading experience designed to be as beautiful to hold as it is to read.

After every story, you will find two specially crafted features. A Memory Prompt — a gentle question that invites you back into your own past. And a Conversation Starter — a question designed to open a discussion with family, a friend, or a caregiver beside you.

This makes it the gift for any occasion — birthdays, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day — and an exceptional resource for care homes, reading groups, and dementia-friendly reading programmes.

One hundred stories. Five decades. Two hundred reasons to remember, to talk, and to feel that your life — the specific, irreplaceable life you have lived — was and is worth every page.

Give it to someone you love. Read it together.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798180543301
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg