Hey there, friends!

I hope your week is going swimmingly so far!

I’m off in a mad rush this morning to two solid days of school visits, so no time for lollygagging about!  We’re going to get right down to it!

First, we need to attend to the most important meal of the day – Something Chocolate!  (It’s what’s for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack, snack, snack! :))

Our Would You Read It pitcher for today recommended chocolate pancakes spread with Nutella!  So here you go – chocolate pancakes!!!

YUM!  Chocolate Pancakes!!!

Recipe HERE at Bakerella http://greatideas.people.com/2014/07/25/bakerella-chocolate-pancake-recipe/

Boy, do those look good!  The cross-section really looks more like actual cake than pancake.  This is a breakfast I could grow to love 🙂

Now then.  Today’s pitch comes to us from Lisa (recommender of chocolate pancakes with Nutella) who says, “I am a Northern California based writer and aspiring picture book author who enjoys thinking and rethinking how I would describe myself in one sentence. Some days I am a chocolate pound cake baking, back yard squirrel watcher who keeps thinking I just felt an earthquake.  Other days I am a coffee frenzied, Scrabble player determined to get the 50 bonus points that come with using all seven tiles in one word.  Lately, I am an-empty nester who just gently pushed the last little birdie out into the world.  It is an exciting time for me, and I am thrilled to submit my pitch for Kitten Ciao to Would You Read It.”

You can visit her blog at https://closeddoorandopenwindow.wordpress.com/posts/

Here is her pitch:

Working Title: Kitten Ciao – A Culinary Tale In Six Bite-Sized Chapters
Age/Genre: Picture Book (ages 4-7)
The Pitch: Kitten Ciao is fed up with the food at home, so he dashes off to dine in Europe, where the food must be better.  He sees famous sights, makes new friends and learns to say “hello” and “goodbye” in each country’s language. But the rain in Paris turns his crepes to goo, there are raisins in his English Pudding, the sauerkraut at Oktoberfest is, well, sour, and there’s no chocolate dip for his Spanish churros.  When he gets to Italy, the worst possible thing happens and Kitten Ciao figures out that the world will never quite be able to top the food at Mama’s table. A glossary of terms is included.

So what do you think?  Would You Read It?  YES, MAYBE or NO?