{"id":4608,"date":"2004-03-25T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:33","slug":"saturdays-and-teacakes-by-lester-l-laminack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/saturdays-and-teacakes-by-lester-l-laminack\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/03\/Saturdays-ad-Teacakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31548\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/03\/Saturdays-ad-Teacakes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saturdays ad Teacakes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Every Saturday, a young boy pedals his bike to his grandmother\u2019s house where she is waiting for him to share their weekly ritual which includes hot biscuits, the smell of cut grass, thick tomato sandwiches, and best of all, making then eating the sweet teacakes baked with such love. The stupendous paintings by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soentpiet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Soentpiet<\/a>, a Korean adoptee (who is also my personal all-time favorite illustrator), bring the story to vivid life. Go ahead, reach out and touch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, March 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soentpiet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Soentpiet<\/a> was a delightful guest for the Smithsonian&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.si.edu\/kacc\/kacc.htm\">Korean American Centennial Commemoration<\/a>&#8216;s summer program, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.si.edu\/kacc\/Events\/Events.htm\">Korean American Adoptees<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0on July 24, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4183\" title=\"Saturdays and Teacakes\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/saturdays-and-teacakes.jpg\" alt=\"Saturdays and Teacakes\" width=\"128\" height=\"127\" \/>Every Saturday, a young boy pedals his bike to his grandmother\u2019s house where she is waiting for him to share their weekly ritual which includes hot biscuits, the smell of cut grass, thick tomato sandwiches, and best of all, making then eating the sweet teacakes baked with such love. The stupendous paintings by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soentpiet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Soentpiet<\/a>, a Korean adoptee (who is also my personal all-time favorite illustrator), bring the story to vivid life. Go ahead, reach out and touch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-03-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, March 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,38,60,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,97,10,135,4613,6389],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-korean-american","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-chris-soentpiet","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-lester-l-laminack","tag-saturdays-and-teacakes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester L. 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