★Five-star rated book on Amazon Brazil! More than 100,000 copies have been sold in Brazil alone!
★Winner of the Best Children’s Book Award from the Brazilian National Book Foundation for Children and Youth (FNLIJ)!
★Winner of the Outstanding Children’s Book Award from the Brazilian Section of The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)!
★“My Greek Grandfather” was selected for the 2014 Bologna Book List!
★The Minister of Education of São Paulo, Brazil’s first city, included it in the Public Schools Government Program project!
★The Minister of Education of Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest city, included it in the Public Schools Government Program project!
★The immigrants who came to Brazil brought with them not only clothes and homesickness, but also their own culture. When they settled here, they also taught us many of their own customs, so that we could understand and respect their traditional culture!
★Illustrated with distinctive regional and cultural characteristics. My experience with grandfather has taught “me”, and will teach young readers about the differences and wonders of the history, culture, food, language, art, customs, and humanities of different regions in different countries, and to gain an accurate knowledge and understanding of the cultural characteristics around the world.

The series currently consists of 10 books: “My Chinese Grandfather”, “My African Grandfather”, “My Arabian Grandfather”, “My Spanish Grandfather”, “My German Grandfather”, “My Jewish Grandfather”, “My Greek Grandfather”, “My Italian Grandfather”, “My Portuguese Grandfather”, and “My Japanese Grandfather”.

Apollo and his brothers always spend Sundays with their grandfather, who loves to tell stories about Greek mythology and his native country. Grandpa Petros tells his grandchildren about his life in Greece, Greek people, customs and the reasons why he came to Brazil and the difficulties he faced in this new country. In these various encounters, Apollo learns about his origins, the importance of Greece in the history of civilization and, above all, the value of family.

[Author] Alexandre Kostolias
Alexandre was born in Rio in 1949. The son of a Greek father, Johnny, and a Brazilian mother, Gilda. He spent his childhood and part of his adult life in the United States. He has a degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University and in Marketing from the University of California, and today works as a business consultant and translator. He lives in Rio and is dedicating himself more and more to his literary projects.

[Illustrator] Lelis
Born in the north of Minas Gerais, Lelis has illustrated more than seventy books, winning several awards. Recently, Lelis was featured in the French comic market as the illustrator of the book “Las bulletes”.