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A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat

By Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

By Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

By Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

By Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall

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Hardcover $17.99

Jan 27, 2015 | ISBN 9780375868320 | 4-8 years

Ebook $10.99

Jan 27, 2015 | ISBN 9780375987717 | 4-8 years

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    About A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat

    A New York Times Best Illustrated Book

    From highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert: blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history.

    In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego.

    Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries.

    Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.

    About A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat

    A New York Times Best Illustrated Book

    From highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert: blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history.

    In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego.

    Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries.

    Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.

    Also by Emily Jenkins

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    Also by Emily Jenkins

    All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
    A Greyhound, a Groundhog
    Toys Come Home
    Toys Meet Snow
    Water in the Park
    See all books by Emily Jenkins

    About Emily Jenkins

    Emily Jenkins has written many highly acclaimed books for children, including Water in the Park, a Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book; Lemonade in Winter, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two Boston Globe–Horn… More about Emily Jenkins

    About Emily Jenkins

    Emily Jenkins has written many highly acclaimed books for children, including Water in the Park, a Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book; Lemonade in Winter, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two Boston Globe–Horn… More about Emily Jenkins

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Hardcover | $17.99
    Published by Schwartz & Wade
    Jan 27, 2015 | 44 Pages | 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 | 4-8 years | ISBN 9780375868320

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Schwartz & Wade
    Jan 27, 2015 | 40 Pages | 4-8 years | ISBN 9780375987717

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    Praise

    “There is no other word but delicious.”
    —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    “More than mere confection, A Fine Dessert is a rich and satisfying journey across four centuries…simply delectable.”
    —School Library Journal, starred review

    “A delicious book about a delicious treat.”
    —Booklist, starred review

    “This is classic Jenkins in its seemingly casual, observation-rich text; the folkloric structure of the process makes the prose rhythmic and readable, while the changing settings mark the significant historical and industrial shifts over the centuries.”
    —Bulletin, starred review
     

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