Paschkis, Julie
Apple Cake: A Recipe of Love
Harcourt Books, 2012. $16.99
PICTURE BOOK Content:
G.
Ida loves reading and can’t
imagine anything more wonderful than her books. Alfonso loves Ida, but regardless of what he does, he can’t
get her to look up from her book and notice him. So he decides to bake an apple cake. The book illustrates Alfonso cooking
the cake in imaginative and creative ways. He collects the salt from the sea and bakes the cake with a
dragon’s fiery breath. In the end
the apple cake smells so delicious that Ida looks up from her book and notices
Alfonso.
The book is creative and
the illustrations are pretty. The
storyline has simple one sentence lines for each page layout. I like the moral that sometimes we need
to look up from what we are doing and notice what is going on around us,
because we may see something beautiful.
Although I like this book, I wonder if it might not have the visual appeal
to younger readers.
EL
(K-3)-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C.
Peterson.
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