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The Royal Babysitters #3
The Royal Bake Off
Royal Bake off
192 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2015
About the author
Clémentine Beauvais
108 books309 followersI was born in Paris in 1989 and though I started to read children’s books pretty early, I somehow never stopped. As a result, I’ve become a writer, reader and student of children’s literature. I’ve now been living and studying in Cambridge (UK) for seven years and have become a doctor. Well, not the type that saves people’s lives. The type that scribbles ‘PhD’ after their name and rambles on about beauty, truth and the value of (all) literature. Worth striving for, I think! More about my academic work here.
The other thing I do is write books – children’s books, surprisingly enough. In fact, it’s not ‘the other thing’. It’s the first thing I ever did, really – long before I heard that you could actually analyse books for a living, I wanted to write books for a living. So I started writing, and ultimately getting published – in French first, and now in English as well. My first series of children’s books in English, led by self-made superheroine Sesame Seade, is being published in 2013 by Hodder Children’s Books!
I am represented by Kirsty McLachlan of David Godwin Associates.
‘How’s your name pronounced???!!!!!’
Clementeen Bovay.
But that’s not even all there is to it. My full name is Clémentine Morgane Mélusine Hécate Beauvais.
As Sesame Seade would have it: ‘Seriously! Parents!’
- from her website
The other thing I do is write books – children’s books, surprisingly enough. In fact, it’s not ‘the other thing’. It’s the first thing I ever did, really – long before I heard that you could actually analyse books for a living, I wanted to write books for a living. So I started writing, and ultimately getting published – in French first, and now in English as well. My first series of children’s books in English, led by self-made superheroine Sesame Seade, is being published in 2013 by Hodder Children’s Books!
I am represented by Kirsty McLachlan of David Godwin Associates.
‘How’s your name pronounced???!!!!!’
Clementeen Bovay.
But that’s not even all there is to it. My full name is Clémentine Morgane Mélusine Hécate Beauvais.
As Sesame Seade would have it: ‘Seriously! Parents!’
- from her website
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August 29, 2016
The third book in the Royal Babysitters series, and really this just gets better and better with each passing book.
Once again the girls (and of course Pepino) are still seeking for money. Yep, I do hope that one day they will have money for that amazing trip (and I wouldn't mind coming with them if they would want to share their vacation). I do hope that when this series ends (not soon though, not soon at all) we will see the girls go on a well-deserved vacation. Until then they can keep on doing odd jobs here and there and have adventures left and right. It would be nice to put all their experiences on a CV, I am sure when they get older people wouldn't mind having girls who can do all sorts of things. :P
This time we have a giant bake-off + a lot of backstory on Pepino's family (and I should say also other royal families). We learn about the king's siblings (and the arguments between them, I did have a laugh at how fabulous the king's brother looked in comparison to him or the sister). It was really interesting and it made the whole series even better. I was always a bit curious on how the king was chosen (sorry, those who read it will get it, but those who haven't, well let me just say that he is an idiot and doesn't really do a great job at manning the country).
The bake-off was just a delight. I do love cooking competitions, so you can imagine that I was excited to see such a competition in this series. Though I have to say that I felt sorry for those having to eat some of the cakes. Some were OK, but others....
And it wasn't just cooking/baking, oh no, you also had competitions, dangers, quests, and a mystery (or even two) that needs to be solved!
I laughed so hard when they went around the world on an airplane powered by.... your own strength. But considering that there were only a few people on the plane this time they added hamsters. Hundreds of them. I just adore hamsters, and I just laughed so hard at the descriptions of the whole trip, every time they hit an airport they would switch hamsters, but in Australia that went a bit different, and Easter Island was even weirder. :P
The ending was brilliant, I didn't see it coming (with the princess), but it was definitely a delight. A lot was explained, a mystery was solved.
Of course you can imagine what happened to the girls and their money.
Like I said in my other reviews the illustrations are still fabulous and fit perfectly.
Though I did have one little thing that I found weird. In the previous book Holly loses parts of her hair, but in this one (which takes place just days after the events of the previous book) she has all her hair back again.
I also bought book 4 (when I found out there was one), and I can't wait for that one to come in.
I would highly recommend this series to everyone.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
Once again the girls (and of course Pepino) are still seeking for money. Yep, I do hope that one day they will have money for that amazing trip (and I wouldn't mind coming with them if they would want to share their vacation). I do hope that when this series ends (not soon though, not soon at all) we will see the girls go on a well-deserved vacation. Until then they can keep on doing odd jobs here and there and have adventures left and right. It would be nice to put all their experiences on a CV, I am sure when they get older people wouldn't mind having girls who can do all sorts of things. :P
This time we have a giant bake-off + a lot of backstory on Pepino's family (and I should say also other royal families). We learn about the king's siblings (and the arguments between them, I did have a laugh at how fabulous the king's brother looked in comparison to him or the sister). It was really interesting and it made the whole series even better. I was always a bit curious on how the king was chosen (sorry, those who read it will get it, but those who haven't, well let me just say that he is an idiot and doesn't really do a great job at manning the country).
The bake-off was just a delight. I do love cooking competitions, so you can imagine that I was excited to see such a competition in this series. Though I have to say that I felt sorry for those having to eat some of the cakes. Some were OK, but others....
And it wasn't just cooking/baking, oh no, you also had competitions, dangers, quests, and a mystery (or even two) that needs to be solved!
I laughed so hard when they went around the world on an airplane powered by.... your own strength. But considering that there were only a few people on the plane this time they added hamsters. Hundreds of them. I just adore hamsters, and I just laughed so hard at the descriptions of the whole trip, every time they hit an airport they would switch hamsters, but in Australia that went a bit different, and Easter Island was even weirder. :P
The ending was brilliant, I didn't see it coming (with the princess), but it was definitely a delight. A lot was explained, a mystery was solved.
Of course you can imagine what happened to the girls and their money.
Like I said in my other reviews the illustrations are still fabulous and fit perfectly.
Though I did have one little thing that I found weird. In the previous book Holly loses parts of her hair, but in this one (which takes place just days after the events of the previous book) she has all her hair back again.
I also bought book 4 (when I found out there was one), and I can't wait for that one to come in.
I would highly recommend this series to everyone.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com
July 31, 2019
3,5 / 5
July 30, 2022
Enjoyable, cute and quick read!
January 8, 2017
This book is really good.I haven't read any of the other books in this series so I did not understand who some of the characters were.The first part of the book is good and gets exciting but around the halfway point I got a bit confused of what was going on.Towards the end it gets better.Well here is what its about: King Steve's brother Sam who is more rich and famous than him is having a bake off and Steve is a contestant and he is worried.Holly,Anna and Prince Pepino are going to help him out.The characters were funny interesting and strange(in a good way).I think for the next book they should introduce the characters better.If your the type of person who likes funny books this is the right book.
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