In coping with the death of her husband, Nick, the author Lynda M. Daniele took a writing class at her local YMCA and began writing a story for children about her husband's battle with meningioma and the neighborhood children he was babysitting for. The four children did not have a grandfather and asked him to be their grandfather. With a great big Grandpa Nick smile, he agreed. Grandpa Nick's Bump tells the story of a silly, playful Grandpa Nick and the importance of grandfatherhood.