Mr. Emerson's Cook

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(166 70 245 1)>Your work should be in praise of what you love. </strong><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>When Annie Burns newly arrived from Ireland takes a job as cook to Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson it is almost more than she can manage. For the brilliant Mr. Emerson is not interested at all in the food she makes. This poet prefers the warm colors of the sunset to a warm bowl of soup and he professes to live by imagination alone.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Annie is afraid she will fail in her job. But she solves her dilemma by taking inspiration from the great man himself. It is only when she lets loose her own poetic imagination that she achieves the success Mr. Emerson writes about so stirringly.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>This story which weaves fact and fiction is as rich and satisfying as the warm apple pie that Annie cooks. With lyrical language that begs to be read aloud and illustrations full of whimsy and warmth this book extols not only the extraordinary Mr. Emerson but the power of imagination to find the magic in a starry night and the sunshine in a cook's creations. Young readers will want to explore again and again Mr. Emerson's world as portrayed in the heartfelt book. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Judith Byron Schachner is the great-granddaughter of Annie Burns Byron Ralph Waldo Emerson's cook. She is the author and illustrator of </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>The Grannyman bits & pieces </em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>and the</span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> Skippyjon Jones</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> series. Ms. Schachner lives with her family in Pennsylvania.</span></p><p><br></p>