My Mommy is a Baker

She is already halfway through her day when you wake up.

Lea knows about the big oven and the smell of bread. What she has never been told is why her mummy goes out while it is still dark, and that the toast on her plate started as a squishy lump somebody shaped by hand.

When she asks her mummy what a baker does, she is shown: the long floured bench and the thump of the dough, an oven taller than she is, a shop where everybody has a job to do, and a window full of plaits and round cakes. Then, the next morning, Mummy lets her butter her own toast and tells her where it came from. A warm read-aloud about patience, and about getting up in the dark to make something for people you have not met yet.

Inside this book

• The bench, the flour, and dough that grows smoother every time it is folded
• An oven taller than Lea, and the long wooden peel that reaches the back
• Lea opens her own bakery on the rug, with a shoebox for an oven
• The toast at breakfast, and whose hands shaped it
• Twelve full-page illustrations, created with AI assistance
• Two colouring pages and four activity pages at the back
• Book 16 in the My Mummy, My Daddy series about the jobs parents do

A lovely gift for a baker's family, and a gentle first answer to "where does bread come from?" for any child who has only ever seen it in a bag.