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Looking for children's story c. 1990-95 about a family of sugar people
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It was in my language arts textbook. As far as I can recall, it was about a family that was new to town. The protagonist befriends a little boy in the family but the boy can never come out when it rains. It is later revealed that the entire family is made of sugar (or maybe it was salt...some kind of dissolvable, powdery substance familiar to grade-schoolers).
The illustration in the edition of the book I read was an Alex Katz painting of a woman wearing a headscarf and holding an umbrella.
Maybe someone else has read the same book?
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It was in my language arts textbook. As far as I can recall, it was about a family that was new to town. The protagonist befriends a little boy in the family but the boy can never come out when it rains. It is later revealed that the entire family is made of sugar (or maybe it was salt...some kind of dissolvable, powdery substance familiar to grade-schoolers).
The illustration in the edition of the book I read was an Alex Katz painting of a woman wearing a headscarf and holding an umbrella.
Maybe someone else has read the same book?
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
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That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
Nov 19 '14 at 22:19
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It was in my language arts textbook. As far as I can recall, it was about a family that was new to town. The protagonist befriends a little boy in the family but the boy can never come out when it rains. It is later revealed that the entire family is made of sugar (or maybe it was salt...some kind of dissolvable, powdery substance familiar to grade-schoolers).
The illustration in the edition of the book I read was an Alex Katz painting of a woman wearing a headscarf and holding an umbrella.
Maybe someone else has read the same book?
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
Pam TamPam Tam
311
It was in my language arts textbook. As far as I can recall, it was about a family that was new to town. The protagonist befriends a little boy in the family but the boy can never come out when it rains. It is later revealed that the entire family is made of sugar (or maybe it was salt...some kind of dissolvable, powdery substance familiar to grade-schoolers).
The illustration in the edition of the book I read was an Alex Katz painting of a woman wearing a headscarf and holding an umbrella.
Maybe someone else has read the same book?
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
Pam TamPam Tam
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asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
Pam TamPam Tam
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asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
Pam TamPam Tam
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asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
Pam TamPam Tam
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asked Nov 19 '14 at 18:22
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That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
Nov 19 '14 at 22:19
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That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
Nov 19 '14 at 22:19
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That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
Nov 19 '14 at 22:19
That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
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This is "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov, 1959
You can read the story online here
“Her kitchen,” said Lillian, ignoring him, “was so spanking clean you
just couldn’t believe she ever used it. I asked for a drink of water
and she held the glass underneath the tap and poured slowly so that
not one drop fell in the sink itself. It wasn’t affectation. She did
it so casually that I just knew she always did it that way. And when
she gave me the glass she held it with a clean napkin. Just
hospital-sanitary.”
later
Their faces blurred as the rain hit; blurred and shrank and ran
together. All three shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which
sank down into three sticky-wet heaps. And while the Wright’s sat
there, transfixed with horror, Lillian found herself unable to stop
the completion of her remark: “—made of sugar and afraid they would
melt.”
edited 15 mins ago
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answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
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This is "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov, 1959
You can read the story online here
“Her kitchen,” said Lillian, ignoring him, “was so spanking clean you
just couldn’t believe she ever used it. I asked for a drink of water
and she held the glass underneath the tap and poured slowly so that
not one drop fell in the sink itself. It wasn’t affectation. She did
it so casually that I just knew she always did it that way. And when
she gave me the glass she held it with a clean napkin. Just
hospital-sanitary.”
later
Their faces blurred as the rain hit; blurred and shrank and ran
together. All three shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which
sank down into three sticky-wet heaps. And while the Wright’s sat
there, transfixed with horror, Lillian found herself unable to stop
the completion of her remark: “—made of sugar and afraid they would
melt.”
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
ValorumValorum
417k11430393261
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This is "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov, 1959
You can read the story online here
“Her kitchen,” said Lillian, ignoring him, “was so spanking clean you
just couldn’t believe she ever used it. I asked for a drink of water
and she held the glass underneath the tap and poured slowly so that
not one drop fell in the sink itself. It wasn’t affectation. She did
it so casually that I just knew she always did it that way. And when
she gave me the glass she held it with a clean napkin. Just
hospital-sanitary.”
later
Their faces blurred as the rain hit; blurred and shrank and ran
together. All three shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which
sank down into three sticky-wet heaps. And while the Wright’s sat
there, transfixed with horror, Lillian found herself unable to stop
the completion of her remark: “—made of sugar and afraid they would
melt.”
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
ValorumValorum
417k11430393261
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This is "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov, 1959
You can read the story online here
“Her kitchen,” said Lillian, ignoring him, “was so spanking clean you
just couldn’t believe she ever used it. I asked for a drink of water
and she held the glass underneath the tap and poured slowly so that
not one drop fell in the sink itself. It wasn’t affectation. She did
it so casually that I just knew she always did it that way. And when
she gave me the glass she held it with a clean napkin. Just
hospital-sanitary.”
later
Their faces blurred as the rain hit; blurred and shrank and ran
together. All three shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which
sank down into three sticky-wet heaps. And while the Wright’s sat
there, transfixed with horror, Lillian found herself unable to stop
the completion of her remark: “—made of sugar and afraid they would
melt.”
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
ValorumValorum
417k11430393261
This is "Rain, Rain, Go Away" by Isaac Asimov, 1959
You can read the story online here
“Her kitchen,” said Lillian, ignoring him, “was so spanking clean you
just couldn’t believe she ever used it. I asked for a drink of water
and she held the glass underneath the tap and poured slowly so that
not one drop fell in the sink itself. It wasn’t affectation. She did
it so casually that I just knew she always did it that way. And when
she gave me the glass she held it with a clean napkin. Just
hospital-sanitary.”
later
Their faces blurred as the rain hit; blurred and shrank and ran
together. All three shriveled, collapsing within their clothes, which
sank down into three sticky-wet heaps. And while the Wright’s sat
there, transfixed with horror, Lillian found herself unable to stop
the completion of her remark: “—made of sugar and afraid they would
melt.”
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
ValorumValorum
417k11430393261
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
4,35511753
edited 15 mins ago
DavidW
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4,35511753
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
ValorumValorum
417k11430393261
answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
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answered Nov 19 '14 at 18:42
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That painting is beautiful!
– Lexible
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