A rainy-day errand introduces Carrie to many different kinds of bread, including chapatis, challah, and papusaa. Includes recipes.
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Grade 2-4?A rainy-day story from the creators of Everybody Cooks Rice (Carolrhoda, 1991). Carrie is sent out into her multiethnic neighborhood to borrow a three-handled rolling pin. It seems like a demeaning errand for a girl who appears to be too bright to be that naive, but the adults see it as a joke, and she has a fine time visiting the neighbors, eating seven kinds of bread, and finding enough friends for a kickball game after the rain stops. She samples coconut bread from Barbados, chapatis from India, corn bread from South Carolina, pocket bread from Lebanon, challah from the Jewish "old country," pupusa from El Salvador, and braided bread from Italy. Recipes are included. Thornton's richly colored, softly realistic illustrations show the diversity of age and nationality, lifestyles, and staple foods of this friendly neighborhood.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Ages 5^-8. On a rainy Saturday, Carrie and her brother bicker so much that their mother sends Carrie on a fool's errand to borrow a "three-handled rolling pin." At the first neighbors' house, Carrie is offered a slice of freshly baked Barbadian coconut bread; at the next house, she has chapatis; and at the next, she sees corn bread cooling. Three more neighbors are baking, too, and by the time Carrie returns home, the bread at her own house is finished. In this companion to Everybody Cooks Rice (1991), Dooley evokes the warmth of a friendly, international neighborhood and includes recipes for each of the seven types of bread the families bake, several of which can be made quickly. Thornton's cozy pictures capture the faces found in the multiethnic neighborhood, and together the artist and the author make a rainy Saturday seem special. Susan Dove Lempke
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By thersites
Format:Paperback
This is generally a very good book - it's about a kid who goes from house to house in her neighborhood. In each house, a different national origin is represented (Indian, Salvadoran, Italian, Lebanese, etc.) and so the kid talks to each of them, they each are making a bread unique to their culture, and it's all done in a respectful and gently humorous way.
EXCEPT for one house. At that one house, the kid is rude to her ("What d'ya want?"), they don't speak grammatically (see above), the kid's sister shakes her finger at the protagonist and "hollers" at her ("leave that alone!"), and there is "loud music playing" that makes communication initially difficult. This one house? The African-American house.
When we read this book to our African-American 4-year-old, we, frankly, wince. Why does one, and only one, culture, have negative stereotypes presented with it?
EXCEPT for one house. At that one house, the kid is rude to her ("What d'ya want?"), they don't speak grammatically (see above), the kid's sister shakes her finger at the protagonist and "hollers" at her ("leave that alone!"), and there is "loud music playing" that makes communication initially difficult. This one house? The African-American house.
When we read this book to our African-American 4-year-old, we, frankly, wince. Why does one, and only one, culture, have negative stereotypes presented with it?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Reader Mom
Format:Paperback
This is a great book. I read it with my 2 pre-schoolers, and they love it. I disagree that it is not a bed time story. We read it anytime during the day. We have been making the bread at home as a project. The recipes are delicious (esp the coconut bread). I would highly recommend this book as an educational and fun book for children.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A. Owen
Format:Paperback
I loved how the character wanders through her neighborhhod and experiences a world of cultures. She gets to taste breads from all over the world. I feel it sends the message that although we are all so very different we are all still part of the same community.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Bread is the common thread
This book is a well written and well illustrated book with the theme of cultural diversity. Two children goes around the neighborhood discovering that everybody bakes some sort of... Read more
Published on July 21, 2010 by K. Malaska
3.0 out of 5 stars
Baking needed
This is a nice way to taech cultural diversity , but it just isn't the same unless you bake the recipes to go with the story. Read more
Published on December 28, 1999
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