It's My Birthday
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1564024121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 24 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In a brightly illustrated cumulative tale, an ever-growing group of friends helps a small child gather the ingredients for a delicious birthday cake.
Oxenbury deliberately leaves the child's gender ambiguous, making it all that much easier for every reader to identify with her character. Ages 2-up. From Publishers Weekly Oxenbury brings her considerable talents to bear on this slender but winsome picture book. . "It's my birthday and I'm going to make a cake," announces a child, and one by one a host of animal friends offer their contributions--an egg from the chicken, flour from the bear, salt from the pig and so on. Perfectly paced, the story celebrates friendship and ends, naturally, with a party. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. As always, her understated watercolors are filled with whimsy--from a picnicking otter family that lends salt to the pig to a bespectacled sheep at the market cash register--and they shine with the quiet resplendence of happy family life. Like the casts of Else
Disappointed Unfortunately, I never received the package. This is a book I have been searching for since 2007 in hard back. My child borrowed this book from our local library and loved this story so much that I decided to purchase the book. This is a very hard book to find since it is out of print. The only satisfication is that the seller was very professional, prompt and gave me a refund for the amount of the book. I would purchase from this seller again since they were so professional. It appeared the package was lost in the US Postal sy. "It's My Birthday by Helen Oxenbury" according to Emmy Fite. I'm a retired teacher (with Reading Certification) and this dear book is my "go-to"gift for a toddler and preschooler's birthday. This charming story is the opposite of The Little Red Hen. In the latter, none of the hen's "friends" will help her to make bread (thus, in the end, she eats alone). In Helen Oxenbury's adorable book, all the birthday child's friends DO help him/her(cleverly illustrated so it can be a moppet boy or girl) by providing the ingredients to make him/her a birthday cake. The message is one of sharing and t. J. Byrne said A wonderful and rare, gender-neutral picture book. It's interesting that some reviewers identify the child as aboy, when the author has in fact written and illustratied this storyto be gender-neutral. The child (and animals, for that matter) can be either male or female -- and that was the author's intention, as described in a note in the book. When the main characters in so many children's books are male for no reason other than the fact that Male is the default gender in our world, how nice for girls to be able to see themselves in the main character of this story (and how ni