Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester L Laminack

Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester L Laminack

When I was nine or ten years old I couldn't wait for Saturdays.
In this poetic memory, a young boy rides his bicycle every Saturday 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.
Lester Laminack's richly detailed prose perfectly portrays the special relationship of a young boy and his grandmother. Set in a small town in the mid-sixties, the story evokes a gentler and more innocent time and place. Award-winning illustrator Chris Soentpiet's images beautifully capture the simplicity of an earlier time.

Lester L. Laminack is an Emeritus Professor from Western Carolina University's Department of Birth-Kindergarten, Elementary, and Middle Grades Education at Cullowhee, North Carolina, where he received two teaching awards. He now works as a full-time writer and consultant for schools all around the United States. Lester is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and has previously worked as co-editor of Primary Voices and the Language Arts children's book review column. He also published the Parent Connection section for the journal Teaching K-8 and served as a teaching editor for the publication. He was a member of the Whole Language Umbrella Governing Board, the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children's Governing Board and Secretary, and the Center for the Extension of Language and Thinking's Board of Directors.

Lester was a member of the Board of Directors of Our Children's Place [www.ourchildrensplace.org] and the Basic Reading Consultant for Literacy Volunteers of America from 1987 to 2001. He is the current column editor for The Writing Department of The Reading Teacher, an ILA journal.

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ISBN 13	9781682630815
ISBN 10	1682630811
Title	Saturdays and Teacakes
Author	Lester L Laminack
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Peachtree Publishers,U.S.
Year published	2023-01-10
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.