Title: Cake Girl
Author & Illustrator: David Lucas
Ages: 1st to 3rd Grade
Summary: This fun loving tale is about a lonely witch that creates a girl made entirely out of cake for her upcoming birthday party. Cake girl is forced to work around the house and as a result becomes really depressed. The sympathetic witch, who desires a good friend more than anything else, discovers that making someone your servant is not the best way to find a friend. The witch apologizes for her wrong doings by creating cake girl into a real girl and entertaining her with her magic. The two end up becoming great friends and seem to have many fond moments ahead of them.
Opinion: David Lucas did a terrific job using his imagery to spike the imagination of the readers. The book, drawn with oil pastels, has a really "neat" messiness to it and uses borders throughout the story to create a picture-in-picture effect. The writing of the book has a fairly basic vocabulary making it very readable, yet possesses some length to the story giving young readers much practice. I especially enjoy the story's message it delivers about friendship and caring. I would use this story in a classroom when presenting ideas about community or perhaps to deliver a message about bullying. A truly great read.
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