In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen

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Simon and Schuster, 1998 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 53 pages
"Welcome to Cobble Street!"

Meet Lily, Rosie, and Tess, the three heroines of a new series by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and acclaimed artist Wendy Anderson Halperin.

Lily wants to be a poet.

Tess wants to act on Broadway.

And Rosie wants a little cottage with flowers by the door.

But for right now, the three cousins are happy staying with their Aunt Lucy on Cobble Street. It's summer, school's out, and the cousins have a project -- a cookie company! They deliver fresh-baked cookies and meet a customer who has a crush on Aunt Lucy. But he's too shy to tell her. How will these two ever get

together? It's up to the cousins to make romance bloom on Cobble Street!

 

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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 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.