Forence and Eric Take the Cake

Product Description

The Reading Rainbow programs are designed to encourage children to read by transporting them to exciting, real-life settings. The series introduces kids to interesting new people and places, explores social and cultural issues, and offers a close-up look at the world around them. Its dynamic, fast-paced, colorful animation and hip music entertain and reinforce these experiences, and help children embrace positive reading habits, skills and attitudes.

Theme: Sometimes your eyes can fool you, and things are not what they seem to be.

This feature book explains the process of making bread – from growing the grain to baking it – in a song sung in English and in Spanish.

Bread is a staple in every culture, and LeVar talks about how the differences in cultures impact on this common food. A Hopi woman shows how she makes blue cornmeal bread, and we visit an East Indian restaurant where they bake bread in a tandoori oven.

Authors: David and Phillis Gershator
Publisher: Henry Holt

Field Trip Segments:

• What Kind of Cake Would You Like to Make? – Kids tell what kind of cake they would like to make if they could have any kind they wanted
• A Trip to the Bakery – Hansen Cakes’ talented bakers make cakes that look like a basketball, a cheeseburger, a sports car and a pig
• LeVar’s Wax Double – Watch Artist Dave Robert Chilidi as he creates LeVar’s face and body out of wax for placement in a museum

Review Books: Uncle Nachos Hat/El Sombrero del tio Nacho adapted by Harriet Rohmer (bilingual English/Spanish); The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg; My First Cookbook by Angela Wilke