Birthday Cake Chase! (Blaze and the Monster Machines) (Pictureback

by Tonya Leslie

It's a birthday celebration in this storybook featuring the characters from Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines --plus party invitations and stickers!

AJ, Blaze, Stripes, Starla, Zeg, and Gabby from Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines celebrate Darington's birthday with a party and a huge cake! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook featuring a foil cover, birthday invitations, and stickers. It makes a great gift or fun party favor!

24 pages, Paperback

Published July 24, 2018

About the author

Tonya Leslie PhD. is an educational consultant and works as a researcher, editor, program developer and professional development service provider. Tonya is also an author of several children’s book including, True You: Sometimes I Feel Ugly and Other Truths About Growing Up which was featured by Oprah. More information about Tonya’s work can be found at www.tonyaleslie.com.

Reviews

[Mavis’s Dad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Giving Blaze another shot was not a good decision. In this crazy-long picture book, Blaze is trying to get a birthday cake delivered to his friend off of a robo-plate. Fortunately, his good friend Kinetic Energy helps save the day and prevents Crusher from stealing the cake. Don’t worry, Crusher is still invited to the party and still gets to eat cake because being a thief is rewardable in this Monster Machine World.

Moral: Kinetic energy can help us harness momentum to pick up speed.

Length: Way too long. By the time Blaze morphs into a wrecking ball to show off his kinetic energy, Mavis had crawled away from me.

Favorite Line: “Kinetic energy is the energy something has when it’s moving.”

Overall impression: I’m sure Blaze makes for good tv, but this book is just plain awful. Things are invented or built on the spot - ice, brick walls and robo-plates just to name a few. Antagonists mix with protagonists and there’s never any consequence for doing the wrong thing. Even when it tries to teach us something new about kinetic energy, it fails because it’s so out of left field. There has to be a better book about kinetic energy and birthday cakes out there. And we’re going to find it!

[Nancy Messina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one ok. It was not for 2 year olds who love monster trucks, but Winry liked and it and it did to get into science so that was an interesting twist.