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Walter the Baker (World of Eric Carle)

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of the most fascinating tales I've read! Have you ever been in a disaster, so great you didn't know what to do? If so Walter Jr. had the same problem after upsetting the Duke and Ducthess of his home town. Walter, a baker, made delicious sweet rolls for the Duke and Ducthess of his home town. However one day Walter's cat tipped over a can of milk. Walter witnessed the incident and became desperate. "What shall I do?," he thought. He had no fresh milk and without that his rolls tasted awful! Thinking that the Duke and Ducthess wouldn't notice, Walter substituted the milk with water. As soon as the Duke and Ducthess tasted the inferior rolls they called Walter over. The Duke almost banished Walter but quickly thought about how much he'd miss the sweet rolls. He considered giving Walter the ultimate challenge, invent a roll which the rising sun can shine through three times, use one piece of dough, and it must taste good. What will Walter do and what will he make? Read this spectacular book to find out how and what Walter creates!

Walter the Baker by Eric Carle is an excellent resource to have in your classroom for all elementary students. It is the story of a well-liked baker, Walter, who makes amazing sweet rolls that the Duke and Duchess love to eat every morning. Except one night, Walter's cat spilled all of the milk he needed to make the sweet rolls and had to use water instead! Needless to say, the Duke and Duchess were not happy, and threatened to banish him from their land forever. Walter's only chance of staying was to make a great-tasting pastry through which the sun could shine 3 times. At the last minute, Walter did it...the pretzel! The Duke and Duchess loved it and let him stay in their land. This book can be used in many different ways in the classroom. It can be used as a fun story to tell young children, a lesson on cooking/pretzels for 2nd-3rd graders, and even a social studies lesson on the caste system of the rulers and the workers for older ementary grades. I recommend this book to any teacher to have in their classroom!

Walter the Baker is good book.It's about a baker and his wife.They make the best food in the whole village.Everyone rushes in the morning to buy their goods.Even the prince.Till one day the cat accidently runs into the milk.So the prince gets very angry with his bread.So he has to come up with something before time runs out.Something the prince will be happy with.So he trys so hard to make something.It teaches your mistakes can turn out good. That change isn't always bad.This book is probaly for children between the ages of 6 and 8.

This is the tale of Walter who is possibly the world's best baker. After an unfortunate accident, Walter finds himself on the wrong side of his Duke and is faced with possible banishment! Walter uses all his talents in the kitchen and with a bit of good fortune he is able to satisfy the Duke's challenge and create a new treat for the entire world to enjoy. We received this book as a gift before moving to Germany. My children were 1 and 5 at the time and both loved it. Even my restless one year old could sit though the whole story. Collage pictures (a Carle trademark) are more detailed in this book than in Carle's more elementary stories. Here we have background - a kingdom, people standing in line outside the bakery, a large group of horses and dogs in a scene. The pictures alone entertained my girls for hours as they choose their favorite horse, dog and pretzel in the pictures and made up their own stories of the other characters pictured. This is a great book for anyone who likes a make believe tale of how things could have been invented. It is a nice story about working hard to solve a problem even when it is seems "unfair". It is a great book for reading in Germany with bakeries on every corner and so many pretzels to choose from!

of the most fascinating tales I've read! Have you ever been in a disaster, so great you didn't know what to do? If so Walter Jr. had the same problem after upsetting the Duke and Ducthess of his home town. Walter, a baker, made delicious sweet rolls for the Duke and Ducthess of his home town. However one day Walter's cat tipped over a can of milk. Walter witnessed the incident and became desperate. "What shall I do?," he thought. He had no fresh milk and without that his rolls tasted awful! Thinking that the Duke and Ducthess wouldn't notice, Walter substituted the milk with water. As soon as the Duke and Ducthess tasted the inferior rolls they called Walter over. The Duke almost banished Walter but quickly thought about how much he'd miss the sweet rolls. He considered giving Walter the ultimate challenge, invent a roll which the rising sun can shine through three times, use one piece of dough, and it must taste good. What will Walter do and what will he make? Read this spectacular book to find out how and what Walter creates!

I now have to read Walter the Baker nearly every night, and he talks about the book frequently while we're on trips. There's a lot going on in the story, but not too much for a toddler to handle (he's 2-1/2). Definitely entertaining, and Eric Carle never seems to miss with the kids.

This is a great children's story by Eric Carle. My granddaughter had me read it to her over and over again. She is three. I think it's a great book for preschoolers because it is a simple story and has great illustrations.

The beginning talks about a baker and what he does, which is good. Then Carle brings in an unjust Duke that tries to banish him for no good reason and thinks up of a silly task for Walter to save his home. Then it goes into talking about pretzles. It was a dumb story. I don't recommend it. I would have given it one star if it weren't for the illustrations.

Ah, the story of the famous pretzel! And to think that it was done by accident! (Somehow I doubt the truth, but it sure makes for an interesting story!) This book was funny and clever, a cute idea of how the pretzel just might have been formed. Eric Carle's illustrations are incredible and funny.

I started out reading this with my son, he enjoyed it immensely, till Walter's cat knocked over the milk. From here on out the book took a turn for the worse. Walter having no milk improvised his baking with water, the pompous Duke and Duchess noticed his baked goods did not taste as good as always. These nut jobs, who are equivalent to Iranian Ayotollahs, call walter to their attention at once and about to exile the guy for not making their rolls to perfection. This part I don't get because for years they have loved this guys work and one minor mistake they are basically going to destroy this guy's life, who is going to make their rolls if this guy is gone? Eventually the duke has to show a little mercy by giving the baker at the time what seems like an impossible tasks(how very fair of the duke). Of course Walter completes it and everything goes back to normal. The moral of this story is if you make a minor mistake you will have your whole life turned upside down unless you invent a pretzel in that case you can live with the knowledge that if you ever make another mistake the totalitarian dictator and his cruel wife will decide your fate. In that case maybe the moral of the story should be if you live under a repressive dictatorship, do nothing to please anyone and they will never find fault in you. Instead of making children's books teaching are children to be mindless servants to people who I would much rather spit in the eye, maybe Walter should have poisoined the Duke, taken his wife as a trophy and freed the people from tyranny. Awful story, I do not recomend Walter for anyone