Elly loves her two uncles -- her father's brother Ned and his partner Phil. Together the three of them work on a special handmade gift for her grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary but then Elly is saddened to learn that Uncle Phil has not been invited to the anniversary party and Uncle Ned refuses to go without him. An unusually realistic account of a young child's struggle to understand the complexities of homophobia within her extended family ends not with happiness but with hope. (Ages 4-8)

Elly's grandfather has trouble accepting the fact that his son is gay.