Akron Public Library

Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.

Grandmother's cranberry bread was very special and Maggie took care that no one stole the recipe. Cranberry bread recipe included at the back of the book.

In rhyming prose, sure to appeal to both children and their grown-up sous-chefs, this story is both informative and fun. Young readers spend a snowy northern afternoon in the warm kitchen with little Suzie, her dad and their zany sourdough circus, learning a simple method to bake wholesome and tangy sourdough bread. Kids will be asking their parents for their very own sourdough starters once they see Eliska Liska's bright and playful sourdough creatures...