| “Don’t peek,” Great Grandma Em said. “It’s a secret recipe and not even you can see what goes into the mixture.”
”You wouldn’t want to know anyway.” Great Grandpop chuckled. “She learned it from a witch and it’s full of magic things that Em thinks will make her skin as smooth as a baby’s bottom.”
In the book Getting Rid of Wrinkles, Tessa's Great Grandma Em is a real character. She has a face like scrunched-up newspaper but she says she "doesn't give two hoots about wrinkles". That is until she gets an aerogram from her best friend Amelia, whom she hasn't seen for fifty years. Amelia is coming to visit! Tessa has ten days to help Great Grandma Em get rid of her wrinkles. But when Amelia arrives, everyone is surprised. |
