The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake

by Nancy Willard

Book Overview

Three astounding angels appear in the kitchen hoping for a taste of the magical secret-ingredient angel food cake a young girl makes for her mother's birthday. "A fresh, amusing piece."-- Booklist This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152343326
• ISBN13: 9780152343323
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

"Thoughtful and gentle..."

I am an elementary school teacher and one of my students - an extremely thoughtful and insightful 7 year-old - gave me an angelfood cake (with this book) for an end-of-the-year gift. She told me to be careful when I eat the cake and to look for the surprise. I was finishing up my room cleaning and had a piece of the cake, but unfortunately, the rest of the cake went bad in the heat. I looked through the rest of the cake to find a thimble. Puzzled, I read the book and cried through the last part of it. For anyone who is wanting to show good wishes, love, luck, modern angels watching over you or just a TERRIBLY wonderful and sentimental gesture towards someone...Read this book, bake an angelfood cake with a thimble in it and give book and cake as a gift. My thimble is in my china cabinet next to my fine crystal and Hummell figurines - it has that much heartfelt value. If you are "angel phobic" or concerned about religious undertones - it really has none. No preaching involved, just simply a FEEL GOOD story.There's no rhyme or reason to the illustrations which are detailed, subtle, yet bright and the storyline is quite cleaver and unpredictable. But it is the meaning woven into the words and storyline that is honest, loving and genuine. One to treasure for generations!

Special Birthday Surprise

When I was nine, my favorite teacher gave me this book to read. It was incredibly imaginative and it put a smile to my face on even the worst of days. For my mother's birthday, i used the exact recipe and directions for the The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake to bake her the very best birthday surprise ever! Read it today!

High rise children's literature that transcends age

What a perfect marriage of words and pictures! This is the story of a girl who wants to give her mother a birthday gift more precious than gold: something that blends love, nostalgia and magic with good cake. She is aided (and abetted) in this venture by her goofy, unwitting uncle, and a trio of the most endearing angels ever illustrated. (Check out how the oldest angel's socks don't match!) The finely drawn pictures are delightfully evocative and reward close inspection. The whole book soars with whimsy, glory, and love. A keepsake.

Beautiful Words, Beautiful Pictures

I was given The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake for my seventh birthday (which was about eight years ago) and it still has a special place on my bookshelf. Every few months, I take it down, read, and find something new in it. The story is sweet, innocent and capivating all at the same time. The intricate pictures are beautiful beyond words; they represent a merging of the real and imaginary. Every one, child or adult, should own this book. It is happiness in paperback.

A wonderfully written & magically illustrated family story.

This is a beautiful story full of magic and wonder. The illustrations are stunning, full of golden hues and gentle shadings. The story is whimsical, perhaps a tiny bit magical, and wonderously written. In our home it started a family tradition of Angel Food Cakes for birthdays and hidden thimbels. This is a great gift for any birthday for any age and should be read aloud to every child who hungers for Ninja Turtles.