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A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
  • Published: 15 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780375868320
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 44
  • RRP: $39.99

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

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27 Jan 2015
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15 Feb 2015
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In this fascinating picture book, four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert--blackberry fool.

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.
  • Published: 15 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780375868320
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 44
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the authors

Sophie Blackall

Sophie Blackall has illustrated more than twenty books for children, including Big Red Lollipop, which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book, and the ongoing Ivy and Bean series, which has over a million copies in print. She won her first Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustrating Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear and her second for Hello Lighthouse. If You Come to Earth, her most recently published children’s book, has received wide acclaim. Her first book for adults was Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found. She has created highly coveted limited edition holiday cards for the Museum of Modern Art, and her editorial illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Town & Country, and other publications.
portrait photo of Sophie Blackall