Everything on a Waffle

Everything on a Waffle is just that - you eat everything on a waffle! This story is based in a Canadian town where Primrose Squarp loves a little restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing. At this restaurant anything you order you eat on a waffle, but you can also order waffles. The owner, Kate Bowzer, decides to teach her to cook. Things don't always go with out a hitch, but Ms. Bowzer doesn't mind. I like that about her. The plot in the story is that Primrose parents are missing at sea and she is hopeful that her parents are alive. She is being raised by her Uncle Jack, but he does not have time to pay attention to her. This makes Primrose feel left out. She has a babysitter, Miss Perfidy, who doesn't like children. Primrose feels no one understands her, not at home or at school. Sometimes she goes over to the dock hoping her parents will arrive one day. It has humor and shows the side of a little girl who doesn't want to lose hope. This book is a Newberry Honor Book.

Horvath, Polly (2001. Everything on a Waffle. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.