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Big Bang Bread
  • Published: 30 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781776957217
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $21.00

Big Bang Bread

A 13.8-Billion-Year-Old Recipe



Take a journey through time and space to discover the secrets of baking!

Did you know that bread is made from stardust? Hop in the rocket and take a journey through time and space to discover the secrets of a home-baked loaf!

Big Bang Bread is a kids’ time-travel adventure cookbook with a cosmic twist. Beginning with the Big Bang, you'll drop in on the era of dinosaurs and Ancient Egypt to collect all the ingredients needed - water, wheat, salt, honey, yeast - to make the yeastiest-smelling and most deliciously pillowy loaf of oven-baked bread.

Encompassing physics, biology and chemistry, children aged five to nine will be blown away to discover the world history and science of bread making. With a recipe to make their own loaf at home, Big Bang Bread is a great way to kickstart delicious experiments and cooking adventures in the home kitchen.

  • Published: 30 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781776957217
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $21.00

About the author

Lily Uivel

After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lily worked as a props maker and designer. But since before she could remember, she had loved to draw more than anything else. She would spend all of her spare time sketching and studying illustration.

When Covid arrived, Lily and her partner Rory Stewart left their life in London and rushed home to New Zealand, where Lily decided to give freelance illustration a chance. She has now illustrated more than 10 picture books, including Melanie La’Brooy’s The Wintrish Girl (University of Queensland Press) and Nicole Miller’s Celia Seagull and the Plastic Sea (Little Love).

Lily lives in Days Bay with her assistant, She-Ra the dog, Rory and their son Reed.

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