Title: Rude Cakes
Author/Illustrator: Rowboat Watkins
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Awards: N/A
Ages: Pre-K and up
Summary:
This picture book shows a little pink cake that is always rude. The cake doesn't share, wait it's turn, or say please or thank you. Until a giant cyclops picks it up and thinks it is a hat. The reader sees that giant cyclops' are always polite and never rude. The cake eventually learns to be polite as well, saying please to get off the giant's head. This book shows it's never to late to learn to be polite!
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Awards: N/A
Ages: Pre-K and up
Summary:
This picture book shows a little pink cake that is always rude. The cake doesn't share, wait it's turn, or say please or thank you. Until a giant cyclops picks it up and thinks it is a hat. The reader sees that giant cyclops' are always polite and never rude. The cake eventually learns to be polite as well, saying please to get off the giant's head. This book shows it's never to late to learn to be polite!
Illustrations:
Watkins ink sketches and watercolor paintings fill this book with imaginative and fun illustrations. The colors are bright and interesting to look at. Each character has it's own details and personality through his drawings. He adds so much to the story by illustrating characters and events in unique ways on every page.
In the classroom:
This silly and fun book is perfect for young readers. Students will love reading this book about cakes and cyclopses and in the process learn a lot about manners. They will learn to not be rude and how to act to be polite. The book is easy to read and repetitive which is also good for young readers. They can work on early reading fluency and other issues.
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