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"That Book Woman" and "The Unbeatable Bread"
Both of these books are wonderful. One feeds the mind. The other feeds the stomach. I do love making bread.
The Unbeatable Bread
5 stars favorite
Author: Lyn Littlefield Hoopes
Illustrator: Brad Sneed
Wintertime. The couple is snowed in. He has cabin fever and bakes poofs and puffs and cookies. There's no one to eat them. So aunt Lucy is not happy when Uncle Jon announces he is making an unbeatable bread. What a bread!
The text is in rhyme and fun to read.
Oh, those beautiful baked goods sitting in the kitchen look good enough to pick right off the page and eat. Uncle Jon is the perfect picture of a baker. Everyone wants a bite of that wonderful shakin', waken' bread as they follow their noses through the snow.
That Book Woman
5 stars favorite
Author: Heather Henson
Illustrator: David Small
Back in the 1930s living back in the Appalachians meant you were far from civilization. People scrabbled for a living.
As part of the Works Progress Administration, people were hired to ride on horse or mule with bags of books to these isolated homesteads. It was like a lending library now operated as a bookmobile.
This young man is not a reader. He thinks reading is a waste of time and an excuse for his sister to avoid chores. But that book woman keeps coming in good weather and foul. She's a fool, no she's brave and there must be something important about those books.
The text reads like an unrhymed poem and really brings the young man's opinions into focus.
Watercolor illustrations give a subdued tone. The expressions especially on the young man are great.
The Unbeatable Bread
5 stars favorite
Author: Lyn Littlefield Hoopes
Illustrator: Brad Sneed
Wintertime. The couple is snowed in. He has cabin fever and bakes poofs and puffs and cookies. There's no one to eat them. So aunt Lucy is not happy when Uncle Jon announces he is making an unbeatable bread. What a bread!
The text is in rhyme and fun to read.
Oh, those beautiful baked goods sitting in the kitchen look good enough to pick right off the page and eat. Uncle Jon is the perfect picture of a baker. Everyone wants a bite of that wonderful shakin', waken' bread as they follow their noses through the snow.
That Book Woman
5 stars favorite
Author: Heather Henson
Illustrator: David Small
Back in the 1930s living back in the Appalachians meant you were far from civilization. People scrabbled for a living.
As part of the Works Progress Administration, people were hired to ride on horse or mule with bags of books to these isolated homesteads. It was like a lending library now operated as a bookmobile.
This young man is not a reader. He thinks reading is a waste of time and an excuse for his sister to avoid chores. But that book woman keeps coming in good weather and foul. She's a fool, no she's brave and there must be something important about those books.
The text reads like an unrhymed poem and really brings the young man's opinions into focus.
Watercolor illustrations give a subdued tone. The expressions especially on the young man are great.
