Slow Rise - A Bread-making Adventure Subclass_Patchwork / Applique New York Times best-selling author

New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all started for our favorite clueless detective--including how he got that red scarf

Especially because he's grown up being read to by his sister Alice

colourful illustrations combine to help answer children's questions about the world around them

But alone in the wilderness

and wondered whether it could really be true

Slow Rise - A Bread-making Adventure Subclass_Patchwork / Applique New York Times best-selling authorOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today. Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts