A review by abigailbat
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution by Mara Rockliff

2.0

Okay, so this is an interesting story about an unknown player in the Revolutionary War and the illustrations are whimsical, colorful, and fitting to the story. My issue is that I found the author's note to be more interesting and clear than the actual text of the picture book. Maybe it's because the text never mentions Christopher Ludwick's name, but just calls him "the baker", which makes the story seem like a fairy tale instead of a factual account. The text of the picture book is just so basic that I didn't really understand that Ludwick was spending his own life savings purchasing flour and baking bread for the Continental Army or that at the end he baked six thousand pounds of bread to feed surrendered British soldiers at the end of the war.

This could be useful in units about the Revolutionary War or the founding fathers, but DO NOT skip the author's note!