Learn More About Nana's Books
NANA'S BOOKS is an advertisement-free, dementia-friendly series that stitches anew the vibrant patches of a person's life story. Like a cherished patchwork quilt, each book is a collage of nostalgic art and literature, carefully pieced together to preserve the unique fabric of individual identity. We bring leisure reading back to unite families and communities of care in a time-honored ritual; shared reading and conversation.
How did ‘Books for Nana’ become NANA’S BOOKS?
What started as a homemade book to bring joy to my mother-in-law, ‘Nana’ Mary during the pandemic has evolved into so much more. An avid reader, Nana was dispirited by the children’s board books, juvenile picture books and discarded magazines in her memory care community. Nana’s friends and neighbors loved her books of nostalgic art and familiar verse, and began to make requests for books of their own. They requested books for veterans, prayer, golf, florals, pets, and more. NANA’S BOOKS series was born. In five short years, we’ve grown to forty books and a digital library, all designed to make visiting fun, in any setting, in person or virtually.
Beyond Just Reading
NANA'S BOOKS go beyond mere cognitive stimulation. We're preserving the intricate designs of each person's life quilt – their passions, their experiences, their essence. By providing a tactile, visual, and emotional link to the past, we're helping to support relationships and the comfort of belonging.
Join us in affirming the spirit within our readers and listeners.
About Our Founder
Laurette Klier is a book-lover and career educator. Her life path from ‘candy-striper’, volunteering throughout high school in a post-acute care geriatrics unit, to teaching first and fourth grades in Boston and Connecticut, and later as a grant writer for priority schools, has had an enduring direction: a passion to connect readers with resources. A family carer and teacher at heart, Laurette is a wife and mother of three, on a mission to learn all she can about living, loving and learning, while sharing that knowledge along the way.
Award Winning Publications
We are grateful recipients of a 2024 National Mature Media Award for our digital book, Prayers to the Great Spirit, timeless indigenous prayers from First Nations Tribes of the Americas. Would you like a digital copy to share? Reach out and we’ll send it your way!