Saturdays and Teacakes book and CD package

Saturdays and Teacakes book and CD package

By Lester L. Laminack

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SO BEGINS AUTHOR Lester Laminack's poetic memory of the adult who made him feel incredibly special--his grandmother. Every Saturday, the narrator, a young boy, rides his bicycle up and down country roads past farms, a graveyard, and a filling station, until he reaches his beloved Mammaw's house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes, he pushes the lawnmower through the dew-wet grass. Afterwards, he always helps her make teacakes from scratch, breaking the eggs and stirring the batter. But the best part, he remembers, is eating the hot, sweet cakes fresh from the oven.

Children will understand the special relationship of the narrator and his grandmother. Set in a small town in the Leave It to Beaver days of the mid-sixties, the story evokes a gentler and more innocent time and place. Young readers will almost hear the sounds of bicycle wheels on gravel and the criiick-craaack-criiick of a metal glider in Laminack's richly detailed prose. Award-winning illustrator Chris Soentpiet's images beautifully capture the relationship and the place, perfectly depicting the simplicity of an earlier time.
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
ISBN-13: 9781561455133
ISBN-10: 156145513X
Published on 10/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 32

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I like this book a lot it reminds me of me going to my grandmas house she always makes me cookies and her super goody food this book is about a boy going to his grandmas house and he get to have tea cakes and he helps his grandma on doing the lawn and he always go to here house in Saturdays riding his bike to there and he LOVES HIS GRANDMA

This book is about a boy and he would go to his grandmas house every week every Saturday and he would help his grandma pull weeds, mow the lawn, then when his work is finished he would eat a tomato sandwich then his grandma would asks do you want some teacakes and he would say yes then whenever he got done he would go home and tell his mother that it was a great day.