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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Published: 01/27/2015
ISBN: 9780375868320
Pages: 44
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.70w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/20/2014
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2014
School Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 103
Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 59
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2015 pg. 66
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2015 pg. 405 - Book Of Special Distinction

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 176629 / Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
Reading Level: 3.6 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5