I found an old copy in a shop last year and wished for the entire year I had bought it, but knew no one out there would buy it. No one read the Sugar Creek Gang! I went back to this shop a year later and wandered around looking for my book...my eyes couldn't focus on all the millions of other items in the shop and I wandered in and out of each room amongst the crowds of black friday shoppers and after thanksgiving wanderers. My eyes searched and for a moment i feared that another book lover and childhood memory seeker had bought my book. There was one side of the shop left to look in that wasn't decorated quite as lavishly as the other side. There in the middle of the room was a book shelf with just a handful of books on it's shelf. My little book was there waiting for me!! I took it to the counter directly to purchase my long awaited book and she asked me "will that be all for you today?" as though I should have been buying trinkets or what not"s instead of just a dark maroon little old book. I felt the surprise in her when I said "yes thank you".
I don't have a ton of maternal memories as a child, but I will say that my mother would read a chapter of the Sugar Creek Gang series to my brothers and I at night before we went to bed. I loved sitting on their bed with them quietly listening to my mom reading to us. We looked forward to each night and the next chapter. I read the books now and I hear so much more than I did as a child and I know the real value was sitting close to my brothers and mother and being engaged with these fun adventures with the sugar creek gang.
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