The Baker's Dozen - Softcover

Forest, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152056874 ISBN 13: 9780152056872

Publisher: Voyager Books, 1993

Synopsis

In this retelling of a colonial tale about how thirteen became a baker’s dozen, a greedy baker almost loses his business before he discovers the joys of giving.

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Kindergarten-Grade 4-- Because the term "baker's dozen" may be unfamiliar to most children, this folk tale will need some introduction. In colonial New York there lived a baker whose special St. Nicholas cookies brought him fame and fortune until he refused to give an old woman 13 cookies for the price of a dozen, and his greed almost destroys his business. A year later the woman returns, and he honors her request. His business is restored, and the custom of the "baker's dozen" began. Forest has retold the tale in the same smooth, appealing cadence that she uses in her live performances, with each comma and phrase carefully placed to create a musical whole. Several major changes in detail do not detract from the story. (One version of the original can be found in Cothran's With a Wig, with a Wag David McKay, 1968; o.p..) Gaber has covered each page with a white-bordered watercolor/pencil illustration in muted colors that draw readers' eyes toward the old woman's great lavender-flowered black cape and the red icing on the baker's cookies. Many pages feature attractive wide borders filled with items mentioned in the story that sometimes flow beneath the adjacent illustration and become a part of it. --Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, Ohio
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyager Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0152056874
• ISBN 13: 9780152056872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gaber Susan