This is a gorgeous book, the illustrations are just stunning! The story is a good one, with an easily understandable lesson, that covers both a lesson about selfishness and a lesson about the best things in life being free, with a big dash of being happy with what you have. It's a great morality tale, but the star here is the art- so soft, so luminescent, so lovely! Buy this, read it over and over, look at the illustrations for hours, it's that kind of book. Obviously highly recommended!

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A great book to teach others not to be selfish, and let others enjoy things. The illustrations were nice as well.

Enjoy being transported back in time to a city with an entirely different physical structure in the desert hues and arching hills of color pencil drawings in Yael Molchadsky’s The Peddler and the Baker. The combination of theme with-a-moral and the color pencil drawings from The Peddler and the Baker created a humble retelling of a classic tale that can be easily interpreted for many an age.

I received an ARC from the author and publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I do love books like this and I have to say that I thought that the images in the book were absolutely perfect for the book!

The story was great and even though I knew how it would all end it was still a pleasure to read.

It is easy to follow and understand and I really liked the touch to add the recipe for Challah at the end of the book too.

It is 5 stars from me for his one, it is a great retelling of a lovely folktale - very highly recommended!!

A simple, but perfectly put, fable from the middle East, as a peddler who cries his appreciation for the smell of the bakers' below his home each morning gets complained about. You just know there will be a pleasant twist, and of course there is. In one fell swoop the book can show the benefits of hard work, the pleasure in letting everyone live their own life – and the mindful kind of sitting back and benefiting from smells, birdsong and everything else pleasurable that we can find for free if we have the mind to. What was equally pleasurable was the artwork – all pastel colours, and richly detailed line work. The community here really comes to life – but the message of the book is still allowed to be universal. A strong four stars, if not more.