![]() I didn’t include the recipe for Thunder Cake here because the book is still in print, and I have kind of a rule that I don’t include recipes from books that are still in print. The faces and hands of the girl and her grandmother are completely in pencil, but their clothes and everything around them are painted. The pictures are an interesting combination of pencil drawings and bright colors. Keeping track of how close the storm is and getting all the ingredients together to make the cake helps to keep the girl busy, and by the time the storm actually arrives, she is no longer afraid. ![]() She also says that they need to get the cake ready by the time the storm actually arrives, so they’d better hurry. ![]() The grandmother explains to the girl how to tell how far away a storm is by counting the seconds between when she sees a flash of lightning and when she hears the sound of thunder. ![]() However, her grandmother insists that the girl come out and help her gather the ingredients for her Thunder Cake. The girl is staying with her grandmother on her farm in Michigan during the summer, and the sound of thunder terrifies the girl so much that she just wants to hide under the bed. ![]() A girl talks about how her grandmother, who she likes to call “Babushka” because she originally came from Russia, cured her of her fear of storms by teaching her to make a special kind of cake, Thunder Cake. ![]()
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