A stimulating look-and-find book originally published in Dutch as Waar is de Taart? told entirely through pictures by award-winning 82-year-old Netherlands-based children's book illustrator T. T. (Thé Tjong) Khing with new endearingly comical story lines to follow and items to discover in each browsing. It's a puzzle, a maze—and so much more! The beautiful watercolor pages make for a perfect backseat activity while encouraging lateral thinking and optical awareness at the same time.
Mr. and Mrs. Dog’s mouthwatering cake is mysteriously stolen from a table outside their house by two very odd creatures! But that’s just the beginning...
As they chase the thieves through a variety of landscapes, one calamitous event after another ensues. Baby Bunny loses her toy., mischievous monkeys take Miss Cat’s hat, and Little Piglet goes astray.
Readers must track the mischievous marsupials and, of course, the cake which looks as if it has been lost forever.
While it is important especially for young readers to read books with rhyming words to practice vocabulary, wordless picture books cannot be overlooked to allow some room for story development and narrative creativity with a blank canvas and your own choice of words. The art is fun and very hip but the best thing is that they expose kids to major time shifts in stories before they can even get their hands on Geronimo Stilton or The Hunger Games.
Astonishingly clever and filled with genius wit, it's meant for fans of Where’s Waldo? and similar works. A companion picture book called Where Is the Cake Now? by the same author follows its beloved groundbreaking predecessor and is also told entirely in detailed illustrations brimming with wordless whimsical characters. These two will probably make you look forward to more books from the author in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Dog’s mouthwatering cake is mysteriously stolen from a table outside their house by two very odd creatures! But that’s just the beginning...As they chase the thieves through a variety of landscapes, one calamitous event after another ensues. Baby Bunny loses her toy., mischievous monkeys take Miss Cat’s hat, and Little Piglet goes astray.
Readers must track the mischievous marsupials and, of course, the cake which looks as if it has been lost forever.
While it is important especially for young readers to read books with rhyming words to practice vocabulary, wordless picture books cannot be overlooked to allow some room for story development and narrative creativity with a blank canvas and your own choice of words. The art is fun and very hip but the best thing is that they expose kids to major time shifts in stories before they can even get their hands on Geronimo Stilton or The Hunger Games.
Astonishingly clever and filled with genius wit, it's meant for fans of Where’s Waldo? and similar works. A companion picture book called Where Is the Cake Now? by the same author follows its beloved groundbreaking predecessor and is also told entirely in detailed illustrations brimming with wordless whimsical characters. These two will probably make you look forward to more books from the author in the future.
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