Pat-a-Cake Baby - Hardcover

Dunbar, Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1406323632 ISBN 13: 9781406323634

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

From two illustrious picture book makers, and mother and daughter, comes a delicious read-aloud perfect for story time, bedtime and, most of all, baking time! Winner of the Mal Peet Children's Award at the East Anglian Book Awards "All glittery and fun and perfect for both storytime and bedtime" Guardian From Joyce Dunbar and her daughter Polly, author-illustrator of Penguin and Hello Tilly, comes a delicious read-aloud celebration of baking! Are you ready? Grab a spoon! Because it's Pat-a-cake time! Come on Jelly Baby, Allsorts Baby and Candy Baby - Pat-a-cake Baby wants to make a very special cake and needs your help, what a job it is! Pitter-patter - get the butter! Glitzy-glossy - whisk in sugar! Jokey-yolky - add the eggs! A riot of rhyme and action, little children will feel stuffed to the brim full of magic and fun.

About this title

About the Author

Joyce Dunbar spent several years teaching literature to adults. Then, at the age of thirty-five, she decided to fulfil her childhood dream of writing and hasn't looked back. She has had several books published by Walker Books including Baby Bird, Gander's Pond, Panda's New Toy, The Secret Friend, Shoe Baby and Tutti Frutti. Joyce lives in Norwich. Polly Dunbar is a major star in the picture-book firmament. She is the author-illustrator of Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, and the illustrator of Shoe Baby, written by her mother, Joyce Dunbar. Her best-selling book Penguin has won numerous awards including the Book Trust Early Years Award, the Nestle Silver Children's Book Prize, the Practical Pre-School Award and the Red House Children's Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her collection of titles beginning with Hello Tilly have been made into an animated series, Tilly and Friends, currently airing on CBeebies. Polly lives in Brighton, Sussex. Find Polly online at www.pollydunbar.com, and on Twitter as @PollyDunbar.

Review

A beautifully illustrated book complete with sparkles and a dreamy rhyming pace. -- Mummy Pages * Mummy Pages * Cake mixing, baking and eating fuel this zingy, high-energy book as a restless baby sets about a night-time adventure. Suddenly it is wide-awake time in the kitchen, and her friends - Candy Baby, Jelly Baby and Allsorts Baby - are set to help. There's egg cracking and smacking, flour sieving and shaking, and the mixture is whisked until it is "flitter flotter fluffy". When the glorious cake is ready and iced it is "magic moonlight dreamy" - perfect for offering to the Moon, who turns up just in time to eat a slice. (2+) -- Julia Ecceshare * The Guardian * The two talented Dunbars serve up a riot of rhyme, colour and action as the baby bakers get stuck into a mixing bowl full of magic and mayhem. Success on a plate! -- Lancashire Evening Post * Lancashire Evening Post * The whole concoction is just so-o good I'd like to show every single spread but you'll just have to get hold of a copy for yourself. -- Red Reading Hub * Red Reading Hub * A very satisfying dish that should be in classrooms and nurseries everywhere. -- Books for Keeps * Books for Keeps * All glittery and fun and perfect for both storytime and bedtime. -- Independent Bookshop Week supplement * The Guardian * The palette is stylish from the chubby cook's cheeks to the scintillating Candy Baby, Jelly Baby, and Allsorts Baby, who all double up as kitchen maids. The layout of the words, in curves and waves, is as delightfully quirky as the story itself, and the finale is a hoot for everyone to enjoy. -- Carousel * Carousel * With full, colourful mixed-media illustrations, both the words and the images flow from whisk to bowl across the pages [...] It is lovely to see the type become part of the illustrations and the flow of the story instead of just dropped over images. Young readers of 0-4 will enjoy the lilting language and are sure to try the words out themselves. -- Alan O'Rourke * Inis * This is glorious use of language, and Polly's illustrations are spot on, as you might expect. This will be excellent to read aloud to a pre-school or infant group * The School Librarian *

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1406323632
• ISBN 13: 9781406323634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40