In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen/A Little Shopping: The Cobble Street Cousins #1-2

by Cynthia Rylant

Cobble Street Cousins (Collections and Selections — books 1-2)

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Contains two adventures featuring Rosie, Lily, and Tess, three nine-year-old cousins who live with their aunt: one inwhich they start a cookie-selling business and encourage a romance between Aunt Lucy and one of their customers, and the other in which they try to make a miniature flower shop just like Aunt Lucy's real one.

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In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen: While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and one of their former customers.

A Little Shopping: Rosie, Lily, and Tess, three cousins who are living together with their aunt, decide to make a miniature flower shop just like Aunt Lucy's real shop, and give it to her as a gift.
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Cynthia Rylant was born on June 6, 1954 in Hopewell, Virginia. She attended and received degrees at Morris Harvey College, Marshall University, and Kent State University. Rylant worked as an English professor and at the children's department of a public library, where she first discovered her love of children's literature. She has written more show more than 100 children's books in English and Spanish, including works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novel Missing May won the 1993 Newbery Medal and A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Rylant wrote A Kindness, Soda Jerk, and A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories, which were named as Best Book for Young Adults. When I was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came won the Caldecott Award. She has many popular picture books series, including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter and Tabby and High-Rise Private Eyes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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