My mother remembers reading us a book about a grandma playing with her grandchild. She is babysitting, we think. At one point, the grandma shrinks in order to jump on the couch with her (or maybe the grandma has always been tiny?). That’s all we remember.
I was born in 1978, so this book was most likely
Published before 1980.
Thank you so much!
Mrs Pepperpot? “Mrs. Pepperpot (Norwegian: Teskjekjerringa, Swedish: Teskedsgumman, translation: the teaspoon lady or the teaspoon hag) is a fictional character in a series of children’s books created by the Norwegian author Alf Prøysen.
The first book in the series was printed in 1956. The main character, Mrs. Pepperpot, is a little old lady who lives in a cottage in the countryside together with her husband, Mr. Pepperpot. Mrs. Pepperpot has a secret – she occasionally shrinks to the size of a pepperpot, but nevertheless always manages to cope with the tricky situations that she finds herself in, at least partially thanks to the fact that upon shrinking she also gains the ability to understand and talk to all animals.”
Good Night, Fred, by Rosemary Wells.