Sweet Competition - Hardcover

Reed, Liz; Reed, Jimmy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062403591 ISBN 13: 9780062403599

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2016

Synopsis

Liz and Jimmy Reed, the creators of the “Cuddles and Rage” webcomic, have whipped up a truly delectable picture book debut featuring the antics of competitive twin cherries who will do anything to outsweet…er, outsmart one another!  

For this pair of twin cherries, everything is a competition. If Girl Cherry can swing higher, Boy Cherry will boast that he can swing lower. If one is smarter, then the other is cooler. So when they enter a contest to build the best dessert ever, they immediately pit themselves against each other. But when you’re attached at the stem, there’s only so much you can do on your own. Things could be easy as pie—so to speak—if they put aside their differences and join forces. Will Boy Cherry and Girl Cherry cream the competition by working together…or will one try to be the cherry on top?

With loveable characters and laugh-out-loud situations, Sweet Competition is the perfect addition to any child’s bookshelf. After all, there’s always room for dessert!

About this title

About the Author

Liz and Jimmy Reed are the husband-and-wife team behind Cuddles and Rage. They started drawing it together in 2010 and decided to turn their doodles into a webcomic featuring dioramas of anthropomorphic food. The webcomic appears on the popular site HelloGiggles and has been featured by the Washington Post. Their work can regularly be seen at top pop-culture gallery venues across the nation, including Gallery 1988 and Hero Complex Gallery. They live and work in the DC area, where they frequently share their love of comics through conventions and workshops at local schools. To see more of their sweet work, visit them online at www.cuddlesandrage.com.

From the Back Cover

The Cherry twins make everything into a competition! When they get a chance to prove who is best once and for all, who will come out on top? Or will the cherries put aside their differences and work as a team to win their just desserts?

Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—For the cherry twins, everything is a competition, no matter what. One day while they are buying ice cream, they see a poster for the "Super Sundae Event" and decide to enter to prove who is the best. It's not immediately clear what type of contest this is until the cherries form two teams with other food items and begin making themselves into sundaes. "Then the cherries remembered one minor detail. They were connected." The two teams agree to practice together, an important factor, as boy cherry is scared of heights and girl cherry can't swim, but supporting and encouraging each other, they both overcome their fears. As the contest draws nearer, they realize they don't want to separate, and plan one large sundae entry together and win the golden cone trophy. Using a combination of polymer clay, acrylic paint, pastel, wire, and a macro lens, Jimmy and Liz Reed bring their lifelike food dioramas, perfected in their webcomic, Cuddles and Rage, to a picture book setting. The text features simple sentences and dialogue balloons. VERDICT Reminiscent of Terry Border's Peanut Butter & Cupcake, with a focus on sibling relationships and entertaining food puns, this title would be a good one-on-one read or read-aloud for older kids. The illustrations and puns make it ideal for starting to talk about wordplay.—Rebecca Quinones, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062403591
• ISBN 13: 9780062403599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Reed Jimmy, Reed Liz
• Number of pages: 40