The Relatives Came
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they...
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In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689717383 (0689717385)
ASIN: 0689717385
Publish date: 1993-07-31
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Relatives from Virginia come to visit their family. The relatives are much different than the family they are visiting. Where they live, they grow grapes and where the family lives they grow watermelon and strawberries. The relatives give lots and lots of hugs and they do not mind all piling up in a...
One of my favorite Cynthia Rylant story because these are my relatives. Okay, maybe not but it does seem like that. I believe my children enjoyed this about as much as I did reading it to them. The pictures by Stephen Gammell just add icing to the cake.
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