{"id":8906,"date":"2010-12-02T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T16:35:35","slug":"food-week-thunder-cake-by-patricia-polacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/food-week-thunder-cake-by-patricia-polacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Week &#8211; Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1173496\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9392\" title=\"thunder cake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thunder-cake.jpg?resize=233%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thunder-cake.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thunder-cake.jpg?w=369&amp;ssl=1 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>Though there are several food-related adult mysteries to blog about\u00a0(my favorite is\u00a0<strong><em> The<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie<\/em><\/strong>, by C. Alan Bradley, which Ann blogged about earlier) I&#8217;m choosing instead to highlight a delightful childrens book with a food theme &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1173496\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Thunder Cake<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by\u00a0Patricia Polacco.<\/p>\n<p>Polacco has written (and also\u00a0beautifully illustrated) many fine stories for the younger set, and some of those,\u00a0such as\u00a0<strong><em>Pink and Say<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0have some pretty weighty\u00a0underlying themes.\u00a0\u00a0But <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1173496\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder Cake<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>is just a fun, family\u00a0story which not only &#8220;teaches&#8221;\u00a0about rain and thunderstorms, but also about how to put a cake together.\u00a0 By ignoring the thunder and keeping busy gathering ingredients,\u00a0Grandma effectively dispels her granddaughter&#8217;s\u00a0fear of thunderstorms.\u00a0 At the end of the story, you&#8217;ll find the recipe, which includes a surprise ingredient &#8212; tomatoes!\u00a0 I used this book back when I was a school library-media specialist and I&#8217;m looking forward to the time when I can use it again when my own\u00a0granddaughter is old enough to want to make cakes herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are several food-related adult mysteries to blog about\u00a0(my favorite is\u00a0 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by C. Alan Bradley, which Ann blogged about earlier) I&#8217;m choosing instead to highlight a delightful childrens book with a food theme &#8212; Thunder Cake by\u00a0Patricia Polacco. Polacco has written<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/food-week-thunder-cake-by-patricia-polacco\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[157,378,359,1420],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-cakes","tag-children","tag-recipes","tag-thunderstorms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2jE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}