Pancakes for breakfast

Tomie DePaola, 1934-

Book - 1978

A little old lady's attempts to have pancakes for breakfast are hindered by a scarcity of supplies and the participation of her pets.

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Subjects
Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich c1978.
Language
English
Main Author
Tomie DePaola, 1934- (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill. ; 16 x 24 cm
ISBN
9780152594558
9780606022217
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Review by Booklist Review

A little old lady's plans for a pancake breakfast are interrupted by her pets.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

With visions of pancakes dancing in her head, a little old lady goes to great lengths to procure the necessary ingredients. Ages 2-6. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

In his usual comfy drawings and, this time, no words, de Paola shows a farm woman getting up and getting dressed and, propping up the recipe for all to see, proceeding to make pancakes--from scratch. Eggs must be fetched from the henhouse, milk obtained from the cow, and butter churned from that. Then the woman returns from buying maple syrup from the woodsman (his trees hang with buckets) to find that her dog and cat have gotten into the other ingredients. A final scene at the neighbors,' whose pancake breakfast she more or less appropriates, provides the necessary if uninspired pickup ending. This is no special feast for the audience, but it's an easily palatable reminder that our food is not created at the supermarket--and the built-in anticipation of the project's outcome should help to keep the pages turning. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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