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Month: May 2015

The Cyclops Who Mistook His Cake for a Hat

Posted on May 7, 2015July 11, 2019 by Philip Nel

The best picture-book debut of 2015 is Rowboat Watkins’ Rude Cakes. Yes, I know it’s only May 7th. And I don’t claim to have read every picture book published thus far. But it’s going to be hard to top this one. (Spoiler alert! There are spoilers below! Lots of them!) The notion of an ill-mannered,…

CategoriesCake, Children's Literature, Cyclops, Picture Books, Reviews, Rowboat Watkins
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