5/26/2023 0 Comments Thunder cake book online![]() ![]() ![]() In each case, she has to conquer a fear in order to accomplish the larger purpose. The little girl must also climb the trellis to pick the secret ingredient. The two must milk the cow, gather the eggs and retrieve the chocolate, sugar and flour from a distant storage shed. The little-girl narrator hides under the quilt at the sound of thunder, so the grandmother involves her in a special cooking project. The story line is simple and the writing style plain. ![]() In ''Thunder Cake,'' as in her recent Christmas book, ''Uncle Vova's Tree,'' Patricia Polacco, who is of Ukrainian-Russian extraction, returns to the world of her childhood, in this case her grandmother's farm in Michigan. When I read ''Thunder Cake'' to a local fourth-grade class, one of them asked me if I was going to bake the cake, and I said yes, but I have to admit I'm a little leery of the secret ingredient. Written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco. ![]()
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