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Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her...
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Monkey has a big box, which he tells Cake has a cat inside, but only when the box is closed; Cake suggest that maybe it is a dinosaur instead, and the two friends puzzle over how they can solve the problem of finding out what is in the box, if it is always empty when opened.
6) Rude cakes
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A story about a rude cake who never says please or thank you or listens to its parents, and a Giant Cyclops who is polite.
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Rhyming text describes how a young girl and her puppy try to practice self-control when her mother bakes a cake and instructs them not to eat it. The sweet treat proves too tempting and after eating it all, the young girl tries to make amends by baking another cake which ends in disaster.
10) Hippo owns up
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When hippo misses breakfast and gets hungry at school, he eats an entire cake that was supposed to be for everyone. Includes a glossary, index, suggestions for discussion and activities, and resources for further information.
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"Join the Hochstetler twin sisters on stage as they bumble their way through baking a cake for a charity auction in front of a live audience. The take-charge Elma and the klutzy optimist Thelma manage to entertain their audience-and attract the admiration of two bachelors, an outspoken woodworker and a shy harness maker from a neighboring Amish community. As fall leads into the Christmas season, could romance be blossoming for one or more of the Hochstetler...
14) Let's make cake!
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Bobo and Pup-pup have fun as they attempt to make a cake for first time using a recipe book lent to them by the mice.
15) Apple cake
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Join a young girl for a walk through the countryside to gather ingredients for a delicious cake: honey from the bees, milk from the cows, and apples from the trees. This simple story teaches little ones to celebrate the natural world and give thanks for nature's gifts.--
20) It's my birthday
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The birthday child's animal friends bring ingredients and help make a birthday cake.