Bake Babushka!

by Celine Dupont, Agnes Richter (Illustrator)

Overview

A wonderful and lively picture book filled with humor, good fun, and beautiful artwork

Bake Babushka! is a wonderful and vibrant book about two dolls that are very much in love. Calamity ensues when Ivan is sent out by his wife to find cherries for his own birthday cake. At the back of the book there is also an easy-to-follow recipe for the cherry cake.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780980671179
Publisher:	Berbay Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Cèline Dupont and Agnès Richter are children's book creators.

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2016
PreS-Gr 1—The narrator of this rhyming story calls herself a "bad babushka" because she forgot the cherries for her husband Ivan's birthday cake (Clafushka). She sends him off with his long ladder to fetch some post haste. The traditionally dressed Russian dolls have fixed expressions but flexible limbs, which come in handy when Ivan is hit by a car while crossing the road with the cherries. His true love puts him back together again, if a little worse for wear. Babushka exclaims, "By putting that piece there/with this piece here…/I've made/Ivan reappear." Despite the setbacks, she is able to make a fine birthday cake and is now a "proud babushka," and Ivan is delighted. The end pages of the book include the recipe for the French dessert this cake is based on: Clafoutis. The flat, graphic-style illustrations are done in predominantly red, oranges, and browns with black accents and are clearly played for laughs. VERDICT A lighthearted culinary love story.—Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada

School Library Journal