Sunday, May 13, 2012

Book Review: You Are My Cupcake

Book #48
Book Image:
Bibliographic Citation: 
You Are My Cupcake.
By Joyce Wan. Illus. by author.
2011. 14pp. Scholastic, $6.99 . (9780545307413)
 
Age Group:
Baby to Preschool
 
Genre:
Fiction
 
Awards:
None listed
 
Topics/Issues: 
Food, love
 
ELS promoted: 
Print motivation, print awareness
 
Format: 
Board book
 
Author/Illustrator sites:
http://www.wanart.com
 
Categorization Tags:
E Wan
 
Annotation: 

Illustrations and brief text explore some of the food names that people use as terms of endearment.
Reactions/Observations:
In You Are My Cupcake, Wan uses food names and cute illustrations of food to depic terms of endearment people often use.After reading We Belong Together, I had to find the other book by Joyce Wan.  The illustrations are just as charming as the first (or really the second) book. The text is simple and complements the illustrations well. The text is not presented in a traditional manner, but in different fonts and compositions, creating a dynamic layout of the each page spread. This book would be ideal for the younger end of our age range.  Babies and toddlers will enjoy the color images. Parents will have fun reading this to their little ones and having a more durable way to share early literacy skills.

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