The Great Pancake Escape

by Paul Many

Book Overview

When Dad's pancakes magically take flight, it is up to his three children to round up their breakfast. Hot on the trail, the magician's kids pursue the pancakes down alleyways, across town, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802787959
• ISBN13: 9780802787958
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Funny

This is a funny book. I love where the pancake turn into hats and wheels and they all come back in a big mess.

LA Times' "Best Children's Book"

Just a note to let readers know that the Los Angeles Times has named this wonderful book as one (of only nine) of the "Best Children's Books of 2002."

Pancake-mania.....

"Our dad is a magician,/who can make a bird go poof,/but the day he cooked us pancakes,/he made an awful goof..." Poor Dad was working from the wrong book. He'd picked up his book of magic tricks instead of the cookbook and "Ka-Blam", everything went crazy. The bowl spun round and round, the batter jumped into the pan all by itself, and the pancakes leaped off the griddle and rolled out the door. "Where did they go?" cried little Ned./Louise had teary eyes./"Now don't be sad," I told them both./"Well catch those sneaky guys!" But the task turns out to be a lot harder than they thought, until the kids begin to notice that everything round...bus, car, even rollerskate wheels, manhole covers, traffic lights, frisbees... had turned to pancakes. And when those errant hotcakes take flight the kids rush back home and finally solve the problem in an ingeniously unique way..... Paul Many's manic, rhyming text is full of energy, rhythm, and motion, and complemented by Scott Goto's engaging, bold, busy, and colorful artwork. Each two page spread is jam-packed with clever, eye-catching details, that pulls the reader into the story and right along on the chase to save breakfast. Perfect for youngsters 4-8, The Great Pancake Escape is a rip-roarin', hilarious, crowd pleaser that begs to be read aloud, and a soon-to-be favorite at your house.

A great caper!

It should have been another dull yawning in the dawning, slapping ingredients together for a hurried breakkie. Instead, Dad reads from the wrong recipe book, & all of a sudden Ka-BLAM! - batter is sizzling & pancakes are wriggling - off the kids' plates, through the house, out the door!If the kids want their breakfast they're going to have to chase off after it - through town where the stampeding pancakes have glomped onto taxi wheels, skipped over ponds & tumbled mailmen!THE GREAT PANCAKE ESCAPE is written in rhyming verse, & is a rollicking read with all the ingredients for a tasty feast of words. Fun reading & laughing for the whole family & Scott Goto's lively illustrations are the maple syrup!