I love Cake! Starring Rabbit, Porcupine, and Moose

Reviewed by: Sheila Dube - Springvale Public Library, Springvale, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 4, 2016

Review

Cake lovers unite or at least share. This is the lesson sweater-clad Moose learns while he helps celebrate his friend rabbit's birthday. Sauer employs the device of a narrator that sets the scene with a simple sentence and then the three friends each add their comments that provide the dry humor of the story. Rabbit invites her friends to her birthday party and they focus on the different activities, except Moose, who is fixated on cake. When he ruins the party by eating all the cake, Rabbit gets "hopping mad" and Porcupine gets "prickly". Moose solves the dilemma at home by making a new cake and the last picture has the friends, in sweaters that Moose loves, sharing the cake. Rozelaar's cheerful illustrations are created with brush, India ink and photoshop for this humorous, friend-filled treat of a story.

Overall Book Score: very good