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Book One

The Bakery
of Tomorrow

The dough will not rise.
Everyone has an idea.

A little jumping. A little performing. A very big yawn. In the Bakery, everyone is trying to hurry the dough along, until the dormouse finds a way to help.

A warm, gently funny story about waiting, helping and the surprising usefulness of a nap.

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The front cover of The Bakery of Tomorrow: a dormouse asleep on a cloth over a bowl of dough, in front of a glowing brick oven.
The cover of Book One.

Who you'll meet.

  • The Moth, drawn on cream paper.

    The Moth

    Lives inside the clock. Tells every story, and is never in a hurry.

  • The Dormouse, drawn on cream paper.

    The Dormouse

    Always nearly asleep. Says only short things, which is where your child comes in.

  • Nan Crumb, drawn on cream paper.

    Nan Crumb

    Head baker. Says very little, and when she does, it’s the thing that’s true.

  • Pip, drawn on cream paper.

    Pip

    The small twin. Has never once stood still.

  • Poppy, drawn on cream paper.

    Poppy

    The loud twin. Believes most problems want banging.

  • Old Sprat, drawn on cream paper.

    Old Sprat

    The bakery cat. Retired from being fierce, though he says he still is.

A few pages, not all of them.

Every page is a painted picture with a little movement in it. Here are three; the rest can wait for bedtime.

Pip sits in a heap of spilled flour beside the big bowl while Nan Crumb and the dormouse look on.Old Sprat the bakery cat gives an enormous yawn over the bowl of dough while the dormouse watches.The dormouse wakes on top of the risen dough, much higher than she went to sleep.

One little book.
A whole world waiting.

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