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Editorial Review
Kids all know the taste, but its origins are a surprise.
Bread is toast, crumbs, pizza, and buns. But how is bread made? Where is bread from? Beginning with a patch of wheatgrass in his backyard, award-winning filmmaker Levenson takes readers on a tour of bread made from scratch. He makes numerous stops along the way—a thresher, a grinder, a doughy combination of flour, water, yeast, and oil—before reaching the final destination: a freshly baked loaf of whole wheat bread. With energetic, poetic text and vivid photographs, the creative team behind Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden shows children that there’s a lot more than expected in the loaves on grocery shelves.
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Customer Reviews
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children 
2008-08-15
One of the first economics ideas to which children are exposed when they enter elementary school is that natural resources are products of nature that can be used to make goods and services. Bread Comes to Life is an ideal book for teaching such a lesson about natural resources. Stunning close-up photographs show how wheat seeds turn into shoots of bright green grass, which then grow into blades of wheat. Each head of wheat, when it is harvested, contains numerous wheat grains that need to be separated from the chaff and ground into flour. Instructions for using the wheat to bake a delicious loaf of bread follow this clear narrative about where that wheat comes from. Discussing this exceptional book in the context of natural resources can help children to realize that economic forces are working all around them, even in the bread they eat.
Ah, *this* is where bread comes from! 2007-10-08
A beautiful, deceptively simple, whimsical and instructive book on the growing of wheat and the making of bread. One senses the author's love for his subject, and the photography is breathtaking. One page shows (and tells) how a grain of hard red winter wheat does indeed look like a tiny loaf of bread... this is memorable and magical for children. What I like most is the immediacy and practicality of the text: the baker sows the wheat in his backyard garden, and we're told one acre of grain can keep a family of four in (weekly) bread for ten years. Looks like we're planting some wheat this fall...
