Fish for Supper

Goffstein, M. B

ISBN 10: 0224025414 / ISBN 13: 9780224025416

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1988

About this Item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Yellow paper on boards binding is bright and clean, a few very faint spots of stain on back cover. Slight spine tilt. No former owner's name. Text is clean, some finger crinkling from reading. Hard Cover. Fair-good/No Jacket.

Seller Inventory # 003799F

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fish for Supper
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224025414
• ISBN 13: 9780224025416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair-good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Fish for Supper is M. B. Goffstein’s Caldecott Honor story of a grandmother and her regular routine in summer: waking at five o’clock in the morning to make the most of a day on the lake, “with cans of worms and minnows, some fruit for lunch, bobbers, lines, hooks, and sinkers.” Delightfully and wittily, Goffstein departs from the usual fisherman’s tale to give us a day in the life of this no-nonsense, patient fisherwoman who catches “sunfish, crapper, perch, and sometimes a big northern pike,” who capably cleans her catch, and who can bake to boot. She relishes every bite of her well-earned supper, and the pleasure she takes in her self-sufficiency and graceful work becomes the reader’s as well. Based on Goffstein’s own childhood summers at her grandparents’ house on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, Fish for Supper transforms her indelible memories into a story that is as honed and gratifying as its heroine’s days.

From Publishers Weekly

Grandmother hurries through her morning chores so that she can get to the real business of the dayfishing until sunset and then eating a pan-fried fish for supper. PW found this Caldecott Honor Book "a tale that is as entrancing as it is tidy."
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