The Have a Good Day Cafe

by Frances Park and Ginger Park

Book Overview

Early each morning Mike and his family drive to the city with their food cart.They sell bagels and orange juice for breakfast, hot dogs and pizza for lunch. Mike passes the time by drawing pictures,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584301716
• ISBN13: 9781584301714
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A boy that his grandmother's traditions from Korea are a welcome addition in the U.S.A.

Mike loves his grandmother, but he wishes she wouldn't talk so much about her old home in Korea. In the summer Mike, his grandmother, and his parents go to the city each day with their family's food cart. Mike's parents sell bagels, juice, hot dogs, and soda while Mike sits on the grass with his grandmother sharing his drawings. One day two other food carts park near Mike's parents' cart and business tapers off. Soon after Mike has an idea about how to improve business. He and his grandmother get up early one morning and make Korean food to sell on the cart. It's a big hit with their customers and Mike discovers that his grandmother's traditions from Korea are a welcome addition in the U.S.A. as well.

Traditional food makes an excellent food for a lunch cart

A young boy's Korean grandmother comes to live with them in America.Mike's grandmother is always thinking and dreaming of her life back in Korea. Mike's family owns a food cart that they bring out and park at the corner of the park. They sell Bagels, OJ, Hot Dogs, chips, soda and pizza at their cart. Soon other carts come and sell the same kinds of things that Mike's family's cart sells. With too much competition they sell less food and wonder what they can keep their cart. One evening while cooking dinner with is grandmother they come up with a terrific idea, Grandma and Mike get up early and make Korean food and when his parents wake up they tell them that today we have a new menu, we're going to sell Korean food today. Mike draws a sign that says Have a good Day Cafe for their food cart. I like on the very last page they have Learn about the Koren Words in this story. They show the Korean writing and also how to pronounce the words as well as the Korean dishes.