Synopses & Reviews
How is bread made? Where is it from?
To make bread from scratch, start in a backyard patch! Come watch a baker turn a homegrown crop of wheat into a homemade loaf to eat. This book tells the story, in all its glory, of the sowing, growing, reaping, threshing, milling, mixing, kneading, shaping, rising, baking, and breaking of whole grain bread. It’s a soil-tilling, dough-stretching, belly-filling, spirit-catching celebration of the staff of life. You’ll never look at a slice of bread the same way again.
Synopsis
From a patch of wheatgrass in his backyard, award-winning filmmaker George Levenson takes readers on a tour of bread made from scratch. A thresher, a grinder, and finally a doughy combination of flour, water, yeast, and oil combine to make a freshly baked loaf of whole wheat bread. With energetic, poetic text and vivid photographs, the creative team behind PUMPKIN CIRCLE: THE STORY OF A GARDEN shows children that there's a lot more to this kitchen staple than they might expect.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Filmmaker and author George Levenson found inspiration in his backyard garden and brought it into the kitchen of his house in Santa Cruz, California, where he and his wife, Vicki, raised their three children. George Levenson also wrote and directed the
Pumpkin Circle book and video. His films, including Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, have been broadcast in over thirty countries and are in the collections of every major library and school district in North America.
Shmuel Thaler, an award-winning photojournalist, has been a staff photographer at the Santa Cruz Sentinel since 1987. He has also been published in Time, Newsweek, People Magazine, and most major U.S. newspapers, and has contributed to six children’s books, two with Tricycle Press, Pumpkin Circle and Piece=Part=Portion. Thaler lives in Santa Cruz with his favorite subjects--wife, Kathy, and daughters, Kayla and Hannah.