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Saturdays and Teacakes | 
 enlarge | Author: Lester Laminack
Creator: Chris Soentpiet
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 19042
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 10.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 156145303X
UPC: 765288530303
EAN: 9781561453030
ASIN: 156145303X
Publication Date: March 2004
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Product Description
When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays. I got up early, dressed, and rolled my bicycle out of the garage. 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.
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Excellent! June 25, 2008
If this book doesn't take you back to the days of your Grandmother, nothing will! It's beautifully written, but the illustrations completely make the book. Chris Soenpiet is fabulous.
Enjoyable story; great illustrations December 31, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a particular favorite in our house - it reminds my husband of his grandmother. My kids (9yrs, 7yrs and 4yrs) have all enjoyed this book; the 4 year old says "pedal, pedal pedal" when he rides his bike.
A Gorgeous Trip Back to a Simplier time October 31, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is so well-illustrated that the pictures literally pop out at you on each page. It's not hard to imagine yourself in the scenes of a small town filling station or in grandma's kitchen complete with a red formica topped 1940s or 1950s dinette set and a vintage range. The artist admits that he was inspired by Norman Rockwell and his pictures show that influence.
The story is a gentle, nostalgic memory of a boy's visits to his grandmother's house. This book would make a great gift for a grandchild who shares this love of visiting grandma's house. It would also be a pleasant trip down memory lane for any babyboomer generation member.
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