Children's Fiction Cooking & Food
Suzie's Sourdough Circus
with Amazing Recipes!
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- Cooking & Food
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 9
- Recommended Grade
- k
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550175561
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
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 cavort, frolic, sing and dance, blow bubbles and get up to all kinds of trouble in order to make the bread rise.
Also included are illustrated recipes for other delicious sourdough baking, like yummy Yukon flap jacks, whole-grain sourdough bannock and a chocolate and vanilla sourdough cake, all tested by Suzie!
About the authors
Kathy Sager is a certified early childhood educator with a background in nutrition. She bakes with sourdough every week, both at home and at Serenity Cove Children's Centre where she works. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now lives in Cobble Hill, BC.
Eliska Liska is a world-traveling freelance artist currently based in Victoria, BC. She has a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and New Media from Ostrava University, Czech Republic. Her previous books include, Suzie’s Sourdough Circus (Harbour Publishing), O'Shae the Octopus (Simply Read Books), and My Granny Loves Hockey (Simply Read Books). She was the 2013 Summer Reading Club artist for BC.
Librarian Reviews
Suzie's Sourdough Circus: With Amazing Recipes!
Sourdough starter has never been so much fun! The first part of this clever book is an imaginative, rhyming story describing how Suzie and her father bake sourdough bread each week. The yeasts in the starter all wake up, have a meal and launch a sourdough celebration. Liska’s simple, whimsical illustrations in a limited palate bring the yeasts’ adventures, including their “Cirque de Sourdough”, to life. It ends with a series of clearly written and tempting recipes for bread, flapjacks, bannock and an unusual chocolate-vanilla marble cake – all using sourdough, of course. In this section, Sager also explains the science involved, why miners during the Klondike Gold Rush were called “sourdoughs” and how to keep sourdough happy.Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2012-2013.
