This book, Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven, tells the story of a community in winter who is missing the sun. The Baker decides that because the sun will not come out she will bake some bread that will bring warmth and light. While in the oven, the sun grows and grows until it is so large that it fills the whole town with its smell. The community comes together to enjoy the bread, which brings happiness and light back into their community. Because their celebrating creates such a clamor, the real sun comes out to see what is going on and with it comes light and warmth for the whole community.
I would use this book in a read aloud to introduce the importance of the sun and its impacts on the earth. Toward the end of the book when the sun comes out, the author tells some effects of the sun and this book would be a good introduction to a unit on the impact of the sun on the earth. ( )

The baker is missing the sun during the winter, so she decides to bake sun bread in order to bring sunshine to their little town. ( )

Genre: Fantasy (fiction)
Why it fits this genre:
-talking animals
-animals living in a town

I would use this book to:
1. present students to rhyme
2. teach students about plot

Summary: The main character in the book, the town's baker, decides to cook a bread to try to feel the warmth of the sun in the taste. When the bread is done baking the scent bring all of the creatures of the town to the bakery. Eventually, the sun also comes out because of the wonderful smell. After the sun sets, the baker stays up all night baking more sun bread so the sun will rise again. The next day, the sun rises and all of the creatures are filled with joy.

Media: color pencil/crayon ( )

After reading Sun Bread, I believe it is a wonderful book for children because of colorful pictures, nice plot and rich imagination. This picture book uses sun bread as a plot tells children the sun wakes up from its sleep not only because of sun bread, but also because of love and sharing that the baker bakes sun bread with love and then she and other animals share it with each other. ( )

Sun Bread is a modern fantasy about a baker making sun bread to replace the sun who refuses to show himself. The book is full with wonderful verbs and adjectives to introduce students to. At the end, there is a recipe to make sun bread!