I Really Want the Cake
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For fans of laugh-out-loud, mischievous storytime favorites like Pig the Pug, No, David!, and Dragons Love Tacos comes a deliciously funny story about trying to resist one of life’s biggest temptations… CAKE!Everyone knows the feeling. First you smell it, then you see it…CAKE!It’s on the table standing there, you cannot help but stop and stare.The icing looks like such a treat, it smells so chocolatey and sweet!And before long…YOU REALLY WANT THE CAKE. This deliciously funny story chronicles the battle of one little girl who tries, with all her might, to resist her greatest temptation: cake. Readers join our spunky, mischievous, and charming heroine and her devoted side-kick pup as the temptation mounts, and a little lick becomes a bite. With bouncing rhyming text from Simon Philip and bold, expressive illustrations from Lucia Gaggiotti, this story playfully tackles all-important themes of impulse control, truth-telling, and making amends (or at least trying to), with humor, authenticity, and heart. Including a recipe at the end of the story, I Really Want the Cake offers readers a universally relatable and tasty tale.
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Simon was born in Chichester in 1988 and has lived there ever since, although he occasionally leaves to buy milk. After gaining a 1st class degree in History at Exeter University, he immediately put his skills to good use working as a barman at a local pub. He soon grew tired of the owner calling him Andy, and so, naturally, decided to become a primary school teacher. Teaching rekindled his love of children’s literature, particularly picture books, so much so that he had a go at writing his own. Deciding he was better at writing stories for children than he would ever be at teaching them, he made a swift exit from education to live the cliché of the writer who works in a bar. He hopes that one day he’ll be able to give up writing stories and become a barman full-time. Simon’s first picture books will be published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Books. YOU MUST BRING A HAT will be published on 30 June 2016, and I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO CALL MY CAT will be published in January 2017. (Bio via http://simon-philip.com)
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781338589412
- Publication Date
- May 5, 2020
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Original Publication Date
- August 10, 2017
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 408
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 3 - 5 years
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 1111934711
- Est. Lexile® Level
- ~221L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~H
- ATOS® Book Level
- 1.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 509858
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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