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Strawberry Shortcake Digest: Field Day and Other Stories
Strawberry Shortcake and her berry good friends are back in this collection of stories that are too Sweet to be missed! It's time for the annual Berrykin Picnic and Strawberry Shortcake and all of her friends are going! With a pie-eating contest, a Ferris wheel, great food, and lots of fun events, everyone is berry excited! Everyone except Bosley Bookworm, that is! Strawberry discovers why he's not looking forward to the Field Day competitions, so she decides to help! Because that's what friends do...they help each other! This digest collects stories from the first two issues of the new Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Exciting! comic series!
48 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2012
About the author
Georgia Ball
140 books56 followersGeorgia Ball is a writer and developer living in Orlando, Florida. She launched her first webcomic in 2004, Scooter and Ferret, with her husband, artist Scott Ball. The strip ran until 2010 when she landed her first gig writing for licensed comic books. Since then she's written for Transformers, Scooby-Doo, My Little Pony, and Disney Princesses. Her horror credits include four issues of Evil Dead 2.
Recent projects have included Disney's Frozen Comic Collection from Joe Books, three Strawberry Shortcake graphic novels from IDW Publishing and a WWII graphic novel on Guadalcanal for Osprey Publishing. She lives with her husband and daughter with their dog and two cats.
Recent projects have included Disney's Frozen Comic Collection from Joe Books, three Strawberry Shortcake graphic novels from IDW Publishing and a WWII graphic novel on Guadalcanal for Osprey Publishing. She lives with her husband and daughter with their dog and two cats.
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July 30, 2026
Strawberry Shortcake: Field Day And Other Stories - Georgia Ball, Amy Mebberson (illustrator)
This comic style book is made up of 7 delicious stories by numerous authors and illustrators, and a there’s a surprise at the end too!
Field Day This was a cute story. I loved how they worked together to prove team work is worthwhile.🥇🍓 🐛
Huckleberry Hill A cool way to reuse something that would otherwise be destroyed. 🌊 🛝👙
A Recipe For Friendship Sweet. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 🥞🍊💕
Opening Act Everyone comes together to help a friend in need. 🎵 ✨ 🎲
The Sweet Legend Of Blackberries Treasure One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.🐚
Brain Freeze - Too hot to think!🥤🫐🍦
The Mystery Dish - A Birthday dish made with friendship, the finest ingredient of all. 📄🎈🥧
When I was younger I had a Strawberry scented Strawberry’s Shortcake doll. I loved these stories although they are an updated version of Strawberry Shortcake, they still bring a sense of nostalgia and a smile to my face.
This comic style book is made up of 7 delicious stories by numerous authors and illustrators, and a there’s a surprise at the end too!
Field Day This was a cute story. I loved how they worked together to prove team work is worthwhile.🥇🍓 🐛
Huckleberry Hill A cool way to reuse something that would otherwise be destroyed. 🌊 🛝👙
A Recipe For Friendship Sweet. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 🥞🍊💕
Opening Act Everyone comes together to help a friend in need. 🎵 ✨ 🎲
The Sweet Legend Of Blackberries Treasure One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.🐚
Brain Freeze - Too hot to think!🥤🫐🍦
The Mystery Dish - A Birthday dish made with friendship, the finest ingredient of all. 📄🎈🥧
When I was younger I had a Strawberry scented Strawberry’s Shortcake doll. I loved these stories although they are an updated version of Strawberry Shortcake, they still bring a sense of nostalgia and a smile to my face.
Did Not Finish
July 1, 2026DNF 20%
September 10, 2016
"Strawberry Shortcake Field Day" is a illustrated book in the genre of graphic books and comics. The first story is about a series of three competitions, such as a water ballon throwing contest and a potato sack race. Strawberry and her friends have been training for so long that they are eager to win the trophies, and they are excited for the whole field day. However, Strawberry notices that the bookworm isn't excited. She contemplates to herself why this is, and realizes he isn't excited because he has no confidence about winning, and is afraid he will make a fool of himself since athletics is not his strong suit. Will Strawberry go against her team and pick the bookworm as her teammate or will she be peer pressured into excluding him from the activities? The second story involves strawberry and her friends noticing that the park employees are taking down their favorite park sign and replacing it with a the sign that has a new title. Strawberry and her friends face a dilemma to either protest to get the sign back or find a new creative use for it. The next story deals with strawberry's dilemma when she is running a cafe in Berry Bitty City, and she lent her friend the recipe book so she does not know what to make. Although her friends are initially expecting to get food served to them, they realize Strawberry needs help. Read more to find out what lesson this may teach to children."Strawberry Shortcake Field Day" is a collection of stories that will invite the reader participate in the fun events in the narrative, as well as learn values and morals.
I would rate "Strawberry Shortcake Field Day" three stars because it needs improvement to be considered high quality children's literature. The graphic novel has not been considered for an award, and the illustrations lack their own system of meaning. The images and text are directly parallel to each other, and there is often too much going on in the illustrations. The illustrations are so detailed and crowded with patterns, colors, shapes and objects, that it does not leave the reader with any interdeterminacies, which are gaps between the text and images where the reader has to create their own meaning. When there is a gap from what the character's are doing in the picture and what they are saying in their white dialogue bubbles, the narrator fills it in by putting more informational text in pink bubbles. From what I can tell, there are no art history references or any complex images that adults may appreciate. There are no metaphors within the images, and there are not any diverse ways in which the pictures and text interrelate. For example, when Strawberry says, "this sign is getting very old," it shows her looking at an old sign, so it is very simple. This children's book really does not have a "dual audience" because it would be hard for adults to appeal to this book, only children. While it does teach important lessons and morals, it only relates to feminine readers and not all children. All of Strawberry's friends, are girls who wear dresses, and the color palette is mostly all pinks and purples. Also, most of the characters are cliche and one dimensional. Therefore, this book could be improved by creating more depth and meaning in the images, having more interesting characters that relate to all children, and editing some of the text so that adults want to read this to children, and children can have an opportunity to contemplate and think about the story.
I would rate "Strawberry Shortcake Field Day" three stars because it needs improvement to be considered high quality children's literature. The graphic novel has not been considered for an award, and the illustrations lack their own system of meaning. The images and text are directly parallel to each other, and there is often too much going on in the illustrations. The illustrations are so detailed and crowded with patterns, colors, shapes and objects, that it does not leave the reader with any interdeterminacies, which are gaps between the text and images where the reader has to create their own meaning. When there is a gap from what the character's are doing in the picture and what they are saying in their white dialogue bubbles, the narrator fills it in by putting more informational text in pink bubbles. From what I can tell, there are no art history references or any complex images that adults may appreciate. There are no metaphors within the images, and there are not any diverse ways in which the pictures and text interrelate. For example, when Strawberry says, "this sign is getting very old," it shows her looking at an old sign, so it is very simple. This children's book really does not have a "dual audience" because it would be hard for adults to appeal to this book, only children. While it does teach important lessons and morals, it only relates to feminine readers and not all children. All of Strawberry's friends, are girls who wear dresses, and the color palette is mostly all pinks and purples. Also, most of the characters are cliche and one dimensional. Therefore, this book could be improved by creating more depth and meaning in the images, having more interesting characters that relate to all children, and editing some of the text so that adults want to read this to children, and children can have an opportunity to contemplate and think about the story.
November 17, 2013
I find it funny that Strawberry Shortcake is copyrighted by American Greetings and this book was published in Korea.
Anyway, I am clearly not the target audience for this as I am no longer six years old and I also don't like the modern updating they did. I think My Little Pony was much more true to the source material while making things more current. Strawberry Shortcake, on the other hand, is more inspired by the '80s cartoon, with characters changed as needed to be contemporary. Do not like.
I requested this from the library because I basically wanted to see the Amy Mebberson drawn stories. Her art was the best of the bunch, especially as several of the others forgot to include Strawberry's freckles. Mebberson imbues her drawings with personality and even the background characters look animated.
As far as the book itself is concerned, it's very much a graphic novel and doesn't lend itself to storytime or reading aloud. This is the kind of thing a mom should keep in her purse and whip out to distract a kid while grocery shopping or waiting for something. I do think $6.99 for this is a little much, especially since it's not made to last long, but you have to ask yourself, how much is heading off a temper tantrum worth to you?
Anyway, I am clearly not the target audience for this as I am no longer six years old and I also don't like the modern updating they did. I think My Little Pony was much more true to the source material while making things more current. Strawberry Shortcake, on the other hand, is more inspired by the '80s cartoon, with characters changed as needed to be contemporary. Do not like.
I requested this from the library because I basically wanted to see the Amy Mebberson drawn stories. Her art was the best of the bunch, especially as several of the others forgot to include Strawberry's freckles. Mebberson imbues her drawings with personality and even the background characters look animated.
As far as the book itself is concerned, it's very much a graphic novel and doesn't lend itself to storytime or reading aloud. This is the kind of thing a mom should keep in her purse and whip out to distract a kid while grocery shopping or waiting for something. I do think $6.99 for this is a little much, especially since it's not made to last long, but you have to ask yourself, how much is heading off a temper tantrum worth to you?
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