Keyes uses the brothers as a backbone around which to structure the book, but the focus is equally on their wives, children, nephews and nieces. Grown Ups somewhat ironically named, explores the family relationships of the three Casey brothers. The issues explored kept entering my thoughts literally months after I’d finished reading I don’t know what the magic writing ingredient Keyes has but I found this happened to me, not only when I read Grown Ups, but also when I read The Break. Keyes' observations are incredibly astute and so perceptive that the reader is left pondering and worrying about the characters and their lives as if they are actual friends and neighbours. (We readers can infer and intuit!) Having said that Keyes books are so successfully representative of contemporary life that it is impossible not to forgive her for this occasional sledgehammer approach. Whilst there is nothing wrong with some element of soul searching, self-revealing chat in any novel there’s no need to spell absolutely everything out for us. I guess this is how she ‘shows’ rather than ‘tells’, but it reaches a point where it is intrusive. I do think that Keyes tends to include too much dialogue in her books.
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Match the scent of your dough to one of the pictures? When finished, store dough in an air-tight container or allow children to take it home in a Ziploc bag. Children can spend time playing with the dough. Can repeat with other scents of drink mix. Sprinkle a little of drink mix onto their dough, ask them how their dough smells.Give each child a portion of the dough.(Create a few additional batches ahead to ensure you have enough dough for every child.) Some dough may be lumpy, and some dough may be runny – that’s ok! Encourage children to use descriptive words while making the dough and add additional flour if sticky. Allow children to use recipe to measure ingredients (flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, and water) and mix together in a large bowl.Gather all materials before beginning this cooking project. 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