Fish Fry Friday: A Picture Book

(Hardback)

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A child joins her grandmother in catching and cooking to prepare for the familys fish fry in this mouthwatering companion to Soul Food Sunday, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book

On Friday evenings, we go to Grannys for a fish fry.
And on Friday mornings, Granny fishes.
This Friday, You coming fishing with me, Granny says.

One special Friday when school is closed, our narrator finally gets to join Granny for her days routine. Rods and reels, lures and lines, bobbers and baits are packed in Grannys Jeep.

Everyone cheers when Granny arrives at the pierthe queen has arrived! After reeling in the perfect catch together, they carefully scale and skin, cut and gut, batter and fry the fish into beautiful filets.

But the family meal isnt complete until Granddaughter adds her own special side dish to the tablemade just like Granny taught Momma, and like Momma taught her.

Author Bio

Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, U.S. Army war and disabled veteran, and the author of one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year, Soul Food Sunday (illustrated by C.G. Esperanza), as well as The Walk (illustrated by E.B. Lewis). She received both bachelors and masters degrees in education and has more than 15 years of teaching experience. She lives in Connecticut. C. G. Esperanza is the illustrator of Soul Food Sunday, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor; the author-illustrator of Boogie, Boogie, Yall, for which he received a Pura Belpr Youth Illustrator Honor; and the illustrator of My Daddy Is a Cowboy, for which he received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and a Caldecott Honor. He lives in the Bronx, New York.