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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.

I really enjoyed this series and can't wait to get into the follow up series next. Cassie and her daughter move to a new town after divorce. She inherited a bakery and house of her dreams but she never could have expected the truth behind it all. Or that magic was real. Her friend group grows and becomes the Brew-Hahas. I'd love to spend sometime hanging out with them!

Decorated some Halloween cookies last night!

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 😁

Digging 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

Mimi 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

I love The Bakery Dragon!
Ember is too little to scare people to get their gold, but when circumstances bring the baker and Ember together, he finds that golden bread can be a treasure too.
I thought he looked adorable washing his hands in bubbles. 🥰🐉

I bought this for myself in a fit of “the world is a dumpster fire I need some joy please” 🥧

#baking
#falling
I love these community fund-raiser cookbooks
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks