I Love Cake!: Starring Rabbit, Porcupine, and Moose

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Bestselling author Tammi Sauers characters are both lovable and mischievous. InI Love Cake!, the first picture book featuring irrepressible Moose, orderly Rabbit, and fun-loving Porcupine, Rabbit plans a fabulous birthday party with fun activities and a delicious cake. Porcupine and Moose come to enjoy Rabbits big day, but everything goes south when impulsive Moose loses control of his appetite!

With hilarious bits of dialogue throughout,I Love Cake!is not only a dynamic read-aloud, it works as an inspiration for a short play. Themes of friendship and forgiveness come through on every pageand the birthday theme makes I Love Cake! an excellent choice for a birthday gift!

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Laid-back language and a subtle rhythm-all three characters make comments in speech-bubbles on each page-make this happy-go-lucky picture book fun to read aloud. -- ALA Booklist Moose's confessional monologue, which appears in a page crammed with all-caps text, is laugh-out-loud funny ("Is it my fault my mouth's so big that the whole cake kind of fell right in" he wails). -- Publishers Weekly Rozelaar's digital illustrations portray Moose as a big-eyed, rather bumbling goof (in a wildly patterned and colorful sweater) next to his more delicate (and hapless in the case of Porcupine) friends, setting up the story nicely. A lesson in sharing that goes down as easily as, well, cake. -- Kirkus ...The cartoon animals are sweet and expressive. Readers will ask for seconds of this fun title. Super for storytime or one-on-one sharing. -- School Library Journal

Author Bio

Tammi Sauer is an avid believer in friendship. According to Tammi, in fact, there's not much that beats the joy found in making (and having!) a good friend. Tammi's friends are smart, they are funny, and they know that her raisins need to be covered in chocolate. The author of Go Fish!; Truck, Truck, Goose!; I Love Cake!; Your Alien; and Nugget & Fang, Tammi lives with her family in Oklahoma. Find her at www.tammisauer.com.