Mr. Cookie Baker

by Monica Wellington, Monica Wellington (Illustrator)

Overview

As sweet and satisfying as holiday baking, here is a beautiful update of Monica Wellington's Mr. Cookie Baker. In this book, youngsters can follow the process of measuring, mixing, baking, decorating, and eating cookies. With six new full-color pages, a handsome new jacket, educational tie-ins, and more recipes, this is the perfect supplement to early math units on sequencing, sorting, measuring, and telling time. The simple, straightforward behind-the-scenes view of a bakery makes it a splendid addition to Monica Wellington's other nonfiction for the very young, such as Zinnia's Flower Garden. Yummy in any season!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399538742
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/21/2006
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	91 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Monica Wellington lives in New York City, where she teaches children’s book illustration at the School of Visual Arts.

Editorial Reviews

Kids and cookies go hand-in-hand, and here's a how-to for the very youngest bakers. Wellington provides only a frame of a story. Every morning Mr. Cookie Baker gets ready to provide the neighborhood children with the treats they so love. He mixes his dough, rolls it and cuts it with cookie cutters, and bakes, decorates, and then serves up the cookies to the horde of hungry children that crowds his shop after school. The brief text is illustrated by art that at first glance seems merely bright and cheerful, but closer inspection shows Wellington's compositions to be quite complex. Cookies in a vast array of shapes surround the boldly lettered text, while intricate design work and careful colorings enliven the facing illustrations. This tasty treat will have instant appeal for individuals and groups.

Ilene Cooper

Mr. Baker's shop is an inviting place, filled to the gunnels with frosted sugar cookies. Not to forget the chromatic dusting of sprinkles that work on children as the Sirens did on Odysseus' men. Wellington takes young listeners through the cookie baker's day making, baking and then selling the goodies. This gives the story its forward motion, but Wellington uses another neat little trick to add a sense of mounting excitement: Each page has a little more color than the one before, a gathering swarm, just like a cookie as it goes from a ball of plain dough through all the stages to become a sweetly colorful enticement. The old-fashioned illustrations, with their two-dimensional and geometric simplicity, add much to the delicious result. (cookie recipes) (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews