Blake the Snake Bakes a Cake
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Publisher Description
Aaron Reynolds meets The Great British Baking Show in this tale of a hapless snake just trying to bake a cake!
All Blake the snake wants to do is bake a cake for his friend Drake's birthday. But mistake after mistake means he keeps having to pump the brakes. How can he share a delicious dessert at the picnic party if each time he bakes, he burns the cake, or it falls in the lake, or—watch out! EARTHQUAKE! Time to give it another take, Blake. Sheer determination is his only hope as he bakes and bakes and BAKES a new cake.
Married duo Amy and Alison Young will leave readers in stitches as they follow this rambunctious reptile on his quest for the perfect bake.
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Readers' first glimpse of the eponymous protagonist brims with comedic promise—Blake's mouth lolls open in deep sleep, a teddy bear nestled in one crook of the character's long green body. Then Blake wakes with a start. There's "lots at stake" as the snake tries—and tries—to achieve a culinary goal: whipping up a birthday cake for a friend's party. The title serves as a refrain, and rhyming text leans way into the -ake sound throughout the project's iterations. For each cake, something goes wrong with the baking process (a "mistake" around a toppled mixing bowl, an "EARTHQUAKE!" that rattles the entire kitchen) or the transport (a rake hits Blake in the face outside the front door; a cake falls into a lake). While married collaborators the Youngs (Mustache Duckstache) lean into heartache for poor Blake, the mayhem does have an upside: each time the snake starts over, readers get to view an elaborately executed new cake concept. By the time a triumphant Blake arrives at pal Drake's party, the dessert is a flower-festooned affair worthy of The Great British Bake Off. Digital watercolors take the cake with their high-energy slapstick in a laugh-out-loud story that remains sympathetic to its resilient protagonist. Ages 3–5.
