This lively celebration of bread offers a welcome emphasis on diversity and collaboration. A warm and engaging read-aloud, it is also an excellent resource for caregivers and teachers.
With few autobiographies for children about Indigenous “firsts,” this fills a niche. It is otherwise mostly of local interest or for adults already familiar with Carmichael’s story.
These chapter books will whet children’s appetite for reading many other Anne of Green Gables adaptations, or perhaps the unabridged original, in all its beautifully purple prose.
Add to collections of stories about preparing for Christmas, alongside Karma Wilson’s Bear Stays Up for Christmas, Anne Mortimer’s Christmas Mouse, and Tomie dePaola’s The Legend of the Poinsettia.