Show-How Guides: Gingerbread Houses: 6 Essential Designs Everyone Should Know! Plus Dough and Icing Recipes! - Softcover

Kurilla, Renée

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250793076 ISBN 13: 9781250793072

Publisher: Odd Dot, 2022

Synopsis

Show-How Guides: Gingerbread Houses is a primer for curious minds with a clear, fun graphic style that invites any kid to get started designing their gingerbread houses.

This pocket-sized 101 includes a curated collection of 8 essential designs and recipes. Every step is illustrated, allowing kids to easily master the basics, regardless of how they learn.

Readers will learn to create, bake, and decorate gingerbread houses in both classic and unique styles.

SHOW-HOW GUIDES offers visual, step-by-step introductions to skills that every kid should know―from hair braiding and paper airplanes, to drawing animals, pumpkin carving, gingerbread houses, and more! Whether you’re a second grader learning to make friendship bracelets for the first time or an adult looking to master the art of knots, these comics will give you the skills you’ll treasure through childhood and beyond.

About this title

About the Authors

Renée Kurilla has illustrated many books for children, including Margarita Engle's Orangutanka, Lisl H. Detlefsen's Right This Very Minute, and her own graphic novel, The Flower Garden. She, her husband, and their fluffy cat, Timmy, can be found in Boston, Massachusetts, approximately 9,410 miles from the Borneo rain forest.

Keith Zoo is an illustrator living near Boston, MA. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things, from character design to animation layout, interactives and design. When he's not there, he loves spending his time drawing monsters, goblins and other silly things. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to his website.

Reviews

Gr 3–6—Two anthropomorphic dots explain the step-by-step instructions for baking, assembling, and decorating eight types of "adoughrable" gingerbread houses. While the instructions are easy to follow, there are no pre-made, packaged ingredients here. Readers learn to make the dough and royal icing from scratch. Each page is laid out with large comic book panels containing an illustration and short instructions walking readers through the entire gingerbread house process. Illustrations are rendered in soft, red tones that are reminiscent of a retro 1950s line art style. The overall design is concise, reducing intimidation of the process, but the muted colors lack the verve some celebrants will be seeking. VERDICT A fine choice for a topic that is not frequently detailed in books.—Katherine Rao

Edition details

• Publisher: Odd Dot
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250793076
• ISBN 13: 9781250793072
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Zoo Keith
• Number of pages: 48