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Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution

by Mara Rockliff

A baker’s contribution to the Revolution

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A baker’s contribution to the Revolution

Christopher Ludwick’s story connects the American Revolution with a practical form of service: baking for George Washington’s hungry troops. The supplied description presents his German birth, patriotism, and skill as a baker as the basis for a biography about contributions to wartime efforts that did not involve combat. The book is described as a picture-book biography, with cut-paper illustrations by Vincent Kirsch, offering a focused historical subject through both text and visual art.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in the American Revolution and colonial history.
  • Readers curious about historical figures whose contributions were outside the battlefield.
  • Those who enjoy picture-book biographies with cut-paper illustrations.

Themes

American RevolutionPatriotism and serviceFood and wartime supportHistorical biography

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Book overview

Celebrate America's 250th anniversary with this stirring picture book biography about a forgotten hero of the American Revolution who rose to the occasion and served his country, not with muskets or canons, but with gingerbread!

Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of "Revolution!" began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or cannons, but with gingerbread!

Cheerfully told by Mara Rockliff and brought to life by Vincent Kirsch's inventive cut-paper illustrations, Gingerbread for Liberty is the story of an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War who changed the course of history one loaf at a time.

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