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Sarabeth's Garage

by Melanie Florence Publisher: TUNDRA BOOKS INC

Cars, curiosity, and expectations

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Hardcover New English

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Cars, curiosity, and expectations

Cars are Sarabeth’s passion, from the sounds of their engines to the different shapes they take. She also enjoys helping her dad at his garage, a choice that brings her into conflict with her grandmother’s ideas about how girls should dress and play. When Grandma’s own car develops a problem, the story brings that disagreement into the world of the garage. The picture-book premise connects a child’s enthusiasm for cars with questions about gender expectations and the possibility of changing one’s mind.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 who enjoy stories about cars and garages
  • Families seeking a picture book about girls challenging expectations
  • Young readers interested in stories about family relationships and changing perspectives

Themes

Cars and mechanical curiosityGender expectationsIndependenceFamily relationshipsChanging perspectives

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Book overview

A picture book that celebrates doing your own thing in the face of society's expectations . . . and a sweet story about a girl, her dad, her disapproving grandma and, most importantly, cars.

Sarabeth loves cars.

She loves the way the engines sometimes roar like lions and other times purr like kittens. She loves seeing sports cars that are sleek and fast like cheetahs and boxy SUVs that trundle along like elephants.

And most of all, she loves to help her dad at his garage.

Sarabeth's grandmother doesn't approve. She thinks little girls should play with dolls and wear dresses and always have clean hands. But when her car starts grumbling like a walrus instead of purring like a kitten, who will be there to help?

A delightful story about an independent and spirited girl who has no time for the limitations that society wants to put on her, and a grandma who gets the opportunity to change her way of thinking.
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