A child joins her grandmother in catching and cooking to prepare for the family's 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 Granny's 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 day's routine. Rods and reels, lures and lines, bobbers and baits are packed in Granny's Jeep.
Everyone cheers when Granny arrives at the pier-"the 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 isn't complete until Granddaughter adds her own special side dish to the table-made just like Granny taught Momma, and like Momma taught her. 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 bachelor's and master's degrees in education and has more than 15 years of teaching experience. She lives in Connecticut. C. G. Esperanza is the award-winning illustrator of Soul Food Sunday, which received a Coretta Scott King Honor, and My Daddy Is a Cowboy, as well as the author-illustrator of Boogie, Boogie, Y'all, which received a Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Honor among many other awards. He lives in Bronx, New York.
