Author(s): Josephine Nobisso,Katalin Szegedi
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: GINGERBREAD HOUSE
Language: English
Date Published: 2003-01-01
Dimensions: 198.12 x 287.02 x 7.62mm
Publication City/Country: Westhampton Beach, NY, United States
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Illustrations: colour illus

When a poor devout widow begs for a scrap of bread from a rich faithless baker, she promises to participate in the king s wedding mass as payment for the baker s generosity. The baker writes One Mass on a scrap of paper and places it on his scale to determine how much bread it is worth. To his and the entire town s surprise, nothing in the shop, not even the gigantic wedding cakes made for the king, outweighs the simple piece of paper representing the true worth of a mass. Luminous old-world watercolor paintings grace the interior of the book and gold foil artwork lends an air of solemnity and sacred beauty to the story.
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