Saturdays and Teacakes

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When I was nine or ten years old I couldnt wait for Saturdays. I got up early, dressed, and rolled my bicycle out of the garage. So begins author Lester Laminacks poetic memory of the adult who made him feel incredibly specialhis 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 Mammaws house. She is waiting for him. While she picks tomatoes, he pushes the lawnmower through the dewwet 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 midsixties, 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 criiickcraaackcriiick of a metal glider in Laminacks richly detailed prose. Awardwinning illustrator Chris Soentpiets images beautifully capture the relationship and the place, perfectly depicting the simplicity of an earlier time.

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