Snowed in with Grandmother Silk

Ruddy's grandmother isn't much fun. She calls him Rudford, not Ruddy, and she doesn't like noise or games or television. When Ruddy's parents go on a cruise and leave him with Grandmother Silk, Ruddy knows it's going to be a loooong ten days. Then one night a snowstorm comes howling through. Ruddy and his grandmother are left without light and heat and water--and they have no one to talk to but each other. Slowly, with the help of an old chessboa...