"Who doesn't love a bakery? Few people can resist the smell of cookies and pies baking or keep from staring at the beautifully decorated cakes. Behind the counter is the person responsible for all this goodness. Your readers learn that bakers not only provide us with breads and rolls and satisfy our sweet tooth, they learn about health, nutrition, and science to produce their delicious recipes. Some bakers spend their careers in local bakeries, making...

A legend of colonial America in which a greedy baker learns the importance of generosity in business, thus initiating the custom of the "baker's dozen."

A group of children visit a bakery and observe how bread is baked.

Briefly describes the training and jobs of bakers.

Traces the process by which wheat is grown, cut, ground into different kinds of flour, and baked into bread. Includes a recipe for whole wheat muffins.

Introduces beginning readers to key concepts in the early elementary curriculum. In this series, Buddy, every first-grader's favorite Weekly Reader pal, takes you behind the scenes at interesting real-life places where people do interesting real-life work. In this book he takes readers inside a real bakery to see how a real baker makes fancy cakes.