Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Apple Cake: A Recipe of Love by Julie Paschkis - OPTIONAL


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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