The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering: A Story for Anyone Who Thinks She Can't Save the World

This seemingly simple story has a powerful message. Medhi is tuning in to a huge grassroots peace movement. This story has already inspired many gatherings and we'll see more as the year progresses. In fact there is talk about 50 million people in the U.S. standing for peace across the nation on the 4th of July.

This book is a delight. It made me feel hopeful that people like grandmothers (but you could also substitute children, teenagers,women, disabled people, minorities, any people without a "voice," etc. could, if they wanted to, find a way to make change in the world. I loved the two parts of this book. The story, and then the story behind the story; how it came to be written. This book is delightful and also hopeful; it shows that determination when supported by people who love and nurture you can produce a wonderful story to be shared with the world. A lovely read and a great gift for other grandmothers and people who care about making peace (shouldn't that be everyone?)

I picked this book up today in a bookstore, and before I knew it, I was sitting on the floor completely engrossed in it (this is saying something, as I was wearing a very small mini-skirt, which was not something in which one should sit on bookstore floors!). Despite not having a lot of money right now I had to buy this book. I had to have it to read and re-read. I will buy a coyy for my mother. I will buy copies for my friends. I am thinking of buying copies to give to strangers. This story moved something deep inside me--it reminded me of my Power, and the Power of one to change the world. And in so doing, has changed the world. Buy this book.

Sharon Mehdi has written the definative story of "Peace On Earth". I love this book! Every friend I have given a copy of the book also loves the book and buys more copies to give to other friends. It has been sold out several times at our local book stores. Sharon has demonstrated that peace is not in oposition to something else - peace is. Peace happens in the most gentle of ways. And that is the story that Sharon has told in this little but powerful book. Sharon is a masterful story teller.

It began with two grandmothers standing in the park to save the world as it does in Sharon Mehdi's charming and witty giant of a little story. "A children's book for grown-ups" as it was suggested by a new friend in the town where the author lives. Not only did the grandmothers in the story arouse and excite everyone in their town, the book had a magical and powerful impact on the community of Ashland, Oregon as is told in "The Story of the Story", also included in the hardback edition. After many book readings and radio interviews, word is out about this blessed story that will inspire hope for the future in all who read it. It has for me and the people I have given it to. It has been distributed at UN conferences and will be translated into many languages because it is universally compelling and non-political. Pick up extra copies for gifts, too.