I Really Want the Cake
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Publisher Description
There's a smell I can't ignore.
It's wafting through the kitchen door.
It's time for me to find out more.
I think it might be cake.
How do you resist the most amazing cake ever? Especially when your mum has left a note saying that you MUST NOT eat the cake?
This wonderful rhyming text from Simon Philip, author of You Must Bring a Hat, is illustrated with huge energy and humour by Lucia Gaggiotti.
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"It's on the table sitting there./ I cannot help but stop and stare," says Philip's (Be More Bernard) protagonist as she gazes at an impressively decorated chocolate cake. She imagines herself and her canine comrade-in-arms as Wild West outlaws in a stand-off, eating utensils in double holsters. But the child's mother has posted a sign that leaves no wiggle room ("YOU MUST NOT EAT THE CAKE"), and so the duo endeavors to practice self-control. Graphic designer Gaggiotti's boisterous, crayonlike drawings show the girl and dog grumpily going through the motions, playing badminton and reading poetry. But it's no use once they sneak a few licks, the whole cake disappears in rapid order. Maybe Mom will forgive her if she makes a replacement how hard could it be? This diva of cake snatching commands every page, with her proclamations of entitlement (rendered in sprawling handwritten type), her extensive repertoire of operatic expressions, and a hairstyle that seems to have a life of its own especially after she's laid waste to the kitchen. In more ways than one, she really does take the cake. Ages 3 5.
