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A Great Cake

  • A Great Cake book cover image by Tina Matthews

A Great Cake is a wonderful book which will capture your child's imagination - and what child doesn't like to dream up great cakes?! The lovely author/illustrator Tina Matthews kindly gave us a copy of this book for 3yo Liam. We have read it so many times! (Often chosen by Liam as one of his bedtime stories too.) He delights in understanding the double meaning of the recipe as we read it through each time, and how Harvey is using his own imagination to create something special.

The essential ingredients in this book are family, imaginative play and simple pleasures. A must for every family with a preschooler.

Harvey wants to bake a great cake, but doesn't have all the ingredients. That doesn't stop him. Harvey can make cakes from the most amazing things!

A Great Cake was awarded the LIANZA Illustration Award - Russell Clark Award 2013.

"I loved writing and illustrating A Great Cake. It’s quite unlike my other books and has only 64 different words, most of those from a recipe which is repeated four times. That doesn’t sound like much of a story but, with the help of the pictures, a lot happens in the 32 pages and by the end of the book the reader knows all the characters pretty well. It’s a book about the pleasure of imaginative play. And, as the title suggests, it’s also a book about cake. More particularly, about how to make a cake and eat it with friends." — Tina Matthews, Author.

“Baking is an essential life skill which all children should learn from an early age and A Great Cake will encourage them to get started” — Sean Connolly, award winning chef from The Morrison and host of My Family Feast on SBS television.

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$24.95

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