C Is for Cake!: A Birthday Alphabet (A+ Alphabet Fun)

Alphabet Fun

by Laura Purdie Salas

Birthdays are full of streamers, balloons, and presents. Get ready to celebrate in C is for Cake!

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Library Binding

First published March 18, 2010

About the author

Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 130 books for kids and teens, including WATER CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2014), A LEAF CAN BE... (Millbrook, 2012), and BOOKSPEAK! POEMS ABOUT BOOKS (Clarion, 2011). She loves to introduce kids to poetry and help them find poems they can relate to, no matter what their age, mood, and personality.

Laura is a thinker, a cupcake and brownie addict, and an adventurer (as long as it doesn't involve skydiving).

Reviews

[Villain E · Rating 4 out of 5]

There aren't enough picture books which use photographs. My kids, when they were toddlers, really responded to photographs of other kids.

An alphabet book focussed on birthday parties and traditions. Mostly American focus but does at least mention other cultures.

[Cara Frazee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Grade: Preschool-K
Informational

A fun way to review the alphabet and letter sounds by going through a birthday party. They do use the vowel sounds for some of the letters just as a caution.

[Bridget Gambaiani · Rating 3 out of 5]

My house is split on this one. My kids liked it, but almost all alphabet books are a hit in my house. They liked both the birthday theme and the photographs. I was not a huge fan. The linked each letter with a word. I can understand that they couldn’t find a word that begins with X, but I think they could have found a suitable example for Q. I also found the factoids odd for a child who was learning about letters.