pickIn a world where most wizards only have magic over a small part of life, 14-year-old Mona is a bakery wizard. She can encourage biscuits to be soft, bread to not burn, & gingerbread men to stand up & dance.
When Mona discovers a dead girl in her kitchen and wizards start disappearing across the city, she reluctantly leads the fight against corruption in the government.
Never thought I‘d sob over bread golems & a skeleton horse but here we are.
My library stack for December 🍪🍪🍪
It‘s always a bit of a question whether the fruit will actually stay put with Nigella‘s cranberry upside down cake, but this time most of it ended up in the right place! Hurray! I whipped the cake up special this afternoon to use up the last of the cranberries I got in the post-Thanksgiving sale. Only people recovering from Covid were allowed to eat some.
#ARichLife Pie @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
This is my most favorite 🎵 song. Probably because I know all the words.
The grandkid is gone so it's time to return the tagged book. She loved it - and that's an understatement! She asked each of us to read it an insane number of times per day over the holidays. So, I bought it online and it should reach her in a few weeks (kennys.ie aren't quick, but they're not Amazon and they ship within the EU).
I am not fully sold on the illustrations' German Swiss nostalgia, but I like the level of detail & the story is cute.
The grandkid is quite taken with Gingerbread Baby! I read it too many times to count. And yesterday, we made gingerbread boys, babies, and other shapes. We did have to explain several times that they couldn't come alive: this only happens in stories 😁
pickDigging into the classic for more about courage. No one checks out Polacco books in my library, but I refuse to weed them. I started reading them to the kids to see if I can make them move. We are all curious about the secret ingredient. I'm not brave enough!
We do not care that we saw a very interesting cookie recipe in NYT called Gochujang Caramel Cookies and we rushed out to the Korean grocery store and bought a container of gochujang, only to read the comments section of the recipe where bakers had mentioned not to get the gochujang with onions and garlic, which naturally the one we bought had. Rushed back out to Trader Joe, problem solved.
#WDNCW @dabbe
pickMimi discovers the art of magical baking while preparing for a baking competition at a local cafe and chaos breaks out within her family. This is a fun adaptation borrowing from A Midsummer Night‘s Dream. I enjoy books with kitchen magic, and Mimi is a charming character. This is middle grade, but it did feel like she was a little more clueless than I would have expected. #Magic #Baking #MiddleGrade #Adaptations
