Children's Fiction Cooking & Food
It Happened on Sweet Street
- Publisher
- Tundra
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2020
- Category
- Cooking & Food, Imagination & Play, Humorous Stories
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781101918852
- Publish Date
- Jul 2020
- List Price
- $21.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 4 to 8
- Grade: p to 3
Description
Cakes, cookies or pie? A rivalry among local bakers is the basis for this deliciously sweet, off-the-wall picture book.
Monsieur Oliphant's cake shop, the only bakery game in town, has long had customers lining up outside its door for Oliphant's delicious jelly rolls and marvelous wedding cakes . . . until the day cookie concocter Mademoiselle Fée takes over the old shoemaker's shop. And it isn't long before the divine piemaker Madame Clotilde soon moves into the old bric-a-brac shop. Three different bakers all trying to outclass one another means their little cul-de-sac is packed with customers every day and night, so, one morning, when everyone is bumpling and jostling each other with their cakes, cookies and pies, a food disaster -- a massacre of cream, a devastation of crumbs -- is inevitable! Only one little girl has the drive (or appetite?) to find a solution, but can it last? This madcap tale of frenzied cooks and zany eats (and one very lucky town) will delight readers with a sweet tooth of any age!
About the authors
Caroline Adderson is the author of Very Serious Children (Scholastic 2007), a novel for middle readers about two brothers, the sons of clowns, who run away from the circus. I, Bruno (Orca 2007) and Bruno for Real are collections of stories for emergent readers featuring seven year-old Bruno and his true life adventures.
Caroline Adderson also writes for adults and has won two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, as well as the 2006 Marion Engel Award given annually to an outstanding female writer in mid-career. Her numerous nominations include the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Most recently, Caroline was the Vancouver Public Library's 2008 Writer-in-Residence.
Her eight year-old son Patrick and his many friends inspire her children's writing. Caroline and her family live in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Caroline Adderson's profile page
Stéphane Jorisch is one of Canada's most celebrated illustrators. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Children’s Illustration for Jabberwocky and The Owl and The Pussycat. He grew up in Montréal, Quebec, where he now lives with his family.
Editorial Reviews
"Children will delight in thinking about an abundance of gingerbread cookies, teetering, towering cakes, and blackbird pies." —Kirkus Reviews
“This delectable book is a useful purchase for libraries looking for titles that foster discussion about competition and inclusion.” —School Library Journal
“Readers will become quickly invested in the escalating events on Sweet Street and the story’s carnivalesque atmosphere." —Booklist
"This zany picture book delivers a tasty treatise on the benefits of keeping the peace — and keeping a variety of desserts at hand!" —Shelf-Awareness
"If you have a sweet tooth, this is the book for you. . . . Adderson’s playful text is perfectly paired with Jorisch’s zany illustrations" —Globe & Mail
"Caroline Adderson has produced a whimsical look at the world of sweet treats with an underlining message. So relevant today, she brings home the point that although we may all have our personal viewpoints and philosophies, we can bridge the gaps by working together." —Canadian Cookbooks
