It’s Perfect Picture Book Friday and a perfect day for birthday cupcakes! 🙂
Join me, won’t you?
Title: Happy Birthday, Cupcake!
Written & Illustrated By: Terry Border
Philomel Books, July 2015, fiction
Suitable For Ages: 5-8
Themes/Topics: birthdays, creativity, friendship, surprise
Opening: “‘Today’s my birthday,” said Cupcake, ‘and I want to share it with friends! But what kind of party should I have?’”
Brief Synopsis: It’s Cupcake’s birthday and she wants to celebrate with a party, but her friend Blueberry Muffin finds problems with every single idea! What’s a cupcake to do?!
text and illustration copyright Terry Border 2015
text and illustration copyright Terry Border 2015
Links To Resources: have a cupcake party! bake your own cupcakes (easy cupcake recipes HERE or use a mix 🙂 ), then provide lots of fun toppings so your friends/family can decorate their own; draw a picture of the perfect cake or cupcake and label all the toppings!; brainstorm a list of party ideas for yourself or your friends or siblings – what’s the craziest or most fun idea you can think of?
Why I Like This Book: Well, for starters, it’s about a cupcake 🙂 and stars a host of other dessert item characters like Donut, Ice Cream Cone, and Eclair 🙂 But seriously, half the fun of a birthday is planning what kind of party to have – every kid does it! But it can be hard to come up with an idea that pleases everyone. This story puts a fun twist on the whole concept, taking the anxiety out of the planning by the sheer silliness of the problems experienced by friends who are food. And the ending is just right 🙂
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do 🙂
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Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!!! 🙂 And Happy Easter to all who celebrate!
Susanna Leonard Hill 
Susanna, who doesn’t love cupcakes? This is a cute book. Hardest thing is to try to please all your friends, all the time. Anything that helps with the hard task of learning to compromise is a winner for me. Thanks for featuring this one. 🙂
Love the unique POV. And happy Easter – may your basket overflow with chocolatey goodness.
I see what you did there! 🙂
Happy Birthday!
what a cute idea – a cupcake birthday. There will be cake, right?
May your birthday cupcakes be filled with sweetness and sprinkles! And chocolate of course!
Thanks for the recommendation, Susanna. If you liked this one, you should read Sweet Competition by the Reeds.
Very clever concept for a book! Also a good gift book! Happy Birthday and Happy Easter!
Eat two MCs for me. (is that bad?) Celebrate, sweet Susanna!
Cupcakes and donuts and ice cream cones…oh my!
The PERFECT subject for any conversation!
Thanks, Susanna…this is really cute and would make a great mentor text for those who want to try writing from a unique POV.
Has your snow finally melted? I am happy to say ours has! But even happier to say I am looking forward to seeing you next weekend at NESCBWI…YAY!
Such a clever way to approach birthday party planning and anxiety! That spread with the chocolate is hilarious. Happy weekend everyone. 😀
Adorable! Happy Birthday! 🎈💛
What a fun unique pov for a story. This will certainly catch every kids eye. Just reading your review is making me hungry and as it’s Easter I’m hanking after a marshmallow chocolate Easter Egg. 😉 Happy Easter!
Read it. Loved it. What’s not to love? Plus you-know-who thinks it’s about her! Shhhh.
Oh, hello cupcake! That’s how I great all my friends. I sooo love these illustrations. They just make me smile without any text at all. 😀
I’m a little late, today. But better late…..
Oh my, this book would have me so hungry after reading it lol!! Happy Birthday Cupcake and Happy Easter to you as well, Susanna 🙂