Sharing the Bread
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Celebrate food and family with this heartwarming Thanksgiving picture book. We will share the risen bread. / Our made-with-love Thanksgiving spread. / Grateful to be warm and fed. / We will share the bread. In this spirited ode to the holiday, set at the turn of the twentieth century, a large family works together to make their special meal. Mama prepares the turkey, Daddy tends the fire, Sister kneads, and Brother bastes. Everyone—from Grandma and Grandpa to the littlest baby—has a special job to do. Told in spare, rhythmic verse and lively illustrations, Sharing the Bread is a perfect read-aloud to celebrate the Thanksgiving tradition.
"A warm and wonderful holiday treasure." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
"A paean to the pleasures of Thanksgiving, with rhymes so musical readers may just burst into song." —The Wall Street Journal
"A delightful holiday book that shows the heartwarming tradition of food and family." —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Miller's Wherever You Go showcased her talent for creating pitch-perfect rhymes, and that skill is just as present in this portrait of a family in 19th-century America, as they prepare their Thanksgiving feast. The narration is essentially a set of orders being delivered by the family's young son, but when his commands are this sweet ("Grandpa, cook the berries please./ Boil those bright red berries, please./ Add some lemon just a squeeze./ Grandpa, cook them, please."), who can begrudge him? McElmurry's gouache paintings exude familial affection: the boy's mother and father sneak loving glances of each other in the midst of the preparations, and the boy takes a moment to peer at his baby sibling, sleeping "snug and happy in our house." This is a warm and wonderful holiday treasure. Ages 4 8.
