Makin' Groceries

by Todd-Michael St. Pierre, Lee Brandt Randall (Illustrator)

Overview

It's 1965 in New Orleans and eight year old Nicky can't wait for summer because that's when he stays with his Maw-maw and he gets to help her out in her restaurant. He especially loves when they shop for all the ingredients needed to prepare all the delicious food!

Maw-Maw Lillian calls it "Makin' Groceries."

Makin' Groceries is an old South Louisiana expression that is traditionally used for food shopping. It derives for the French faire son marche, "to do one's market shopping." Faire translates to either "to do" or "to make." Some folks, for reasons of nostalgia, the author included, still use this wonderful expression with great pride!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780974260280
Publisher:	evmLearning, LLC
Publication date:	11/27/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	36
File size:	89 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

Todd-Michael St. Pierre is a south Louisiana native, who has served as a judge for the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. He's the author of many children's books, and has contributed, as a writer, to elementary and middle school textbooks published by Oxford University Press, MacMillan and Harper/Collins. Find him at LousianaBoy.com.
Lee Brandt Randall, a classroom art teacher for nearly thirty years, also loves to create her own surrealist art, make puppets of all types and sized, and designs outlandish costumes for Baton Rouge's "Krewe of Yazoo Precision Lawn Mower Drill Team." Makin' Groceries is one of six books she has illustrated for Todd-Michael.