Everything on a Waffle

Everything on a Waffle

Author: Polly Horvath

Cover Artist: Gina Freschet

Genre: Fiction

Sub Genre: Comedy

Primary Characters: Primrose, Uncle Jack, Miss Honeycut, Miss Bowser, and Miss. Perfidy

Secondary Characters: Evie, Bert, and Mrs. Witherspoon

Publication: Farrar Straus Giroux 2001

Awards: Newbery Honor 2001

Theme: Over coming challenges can improve one's self esteem.

Summary: Primrose Squarp loses her parents out at sea and is then made to live with her Uncle Jack. This story is about tha events that happen to her while she awaits her parents' return. She writes down recipes throughout the book from a diner in town who serves everything on a waffle. In the end, her parents finally return despite everyone's beliefs.

In a classroom, this book can be used as a silent reading book, or as a read aloud book in the fourth or fifth grade. Everyday a new chapter is read the corresponding recipe could be made to enrich the reading experience. It can teach students to be positive and to have a good self esteem.