It Began with Lemonade
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Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Gideon Sterer is an imaginative, colorful tale of making (and selling!) lemonade from life's lemons is not too sour and not too sweet.
One scorching hot summer day, a spunky young girl decides to sell lemonade . . . only to find there are too many other young entrepreneurs on her street with the same idea. So she sets off with her lemonade stand and ends up at the river's edge, where she discovers a most unexpected, quirky, and very thirsty clientele.
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Sterer (The Midnight Fair) writes a make-lemonade story with a twist. A tan-skinned child sporting black braids, a blue-and-white dress, and a resolute expression readies a lemonade stand on a hot summer day. "I chopped and measured, squeezed and stirred... until I had something delicious." The child's caretaker, bearded and stocky, builds a wheeled stand to take out onto their city block. But in a visually funny turn, the city sidewalk is already crammed with other stands, and the protagonist, disheartened, wanders farther. Suddenly, the stand rolls toward a river, leaving a trail behind it like an out-of-control lawn mower, until it lands on a riverbank, where "something thirsty" arrives via the waterway. Soon, child and stand cater to a growing menagerie of parched creatures. "As I looked out from that riverbank," the child narrates, "it felt just like a dream." The unexpected developments feel dreamy, too, as Cho's (The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom) sprightly art, filled with invention and wit, give still more charm to a story about doing one's best with what one's given, and of transitioning from city to wilderness. Ages 4–8.
