The Little Cupcakes

by Anthony King

Book Overview

It’s Caitlin’s birthday. She’s excited to share her birthday cupcakes with her classmates. But what should have been a fun treat turns out to be a problem for Caitlin since the cupcakes aren’t all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975278614
• ISBN13: 9780975278611
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Cupcake Publishing
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.7" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A children's picturebook about the value of diversity

The Little Cupcakes is a children's picturebook about the value of diversity. When a young girl wants to bring cupcakes from a bakery to her class, her teacher disappoints all the children by taking the tops off of the cupcakes. Why? Because the teacher was afraid the students would be unhappy about eating different kinds of cupcakes. She wanted to make the cupcakes all the same. When the girl comes home to her father, he explains to her that nothing in the world is exactly the same - some people are short, some are tall, some are thin or round, some are white, yellow or black, and the world itself is "egg shaped and funky at the poles". Some people want the world and its people to be all the same because they think it would be better, but it wouldn't be. "If everything in the world were the same, all growth would stop, all learning would stop, and all love would stop. We'd all look alike, think alike, feel alike, and act alike. Would you like that?" The gentle, sketchy color illustrations bring the parable to life, and a one-page guide for parents and teachers at the end offers tips for sharing the message of the story with children and students. Highly recommended.

A Celebration of Life's Creative and Natural Diversity

Anthony King has created a sweet loving story filled with humor, love and a very interesting challenge. The energetic illustrations burst with life and display an array of emotions children experience when faced with challenges. When Caitlin and her father go to the bakery to pick up cupcakes for her friends at school, they buy an assortment of vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. Then the unthinkable happens. The disappointment on the children's faces is very apparent when their teacher cuts the icing/tops off the cupcakes. She feels that all the cupcakes should have the same icing or it won't be fair. Poor Caitlin ends up home with the sad little cupcake faces all on one sheet. Her dad then explains how the world is a place of great diversity. Children will appreciate the contrast of the row of houses that are all the same with families all dressed the same all looking quite generic and the row of creative houses with people of all races and income levels enjoying life together. "Is there nothing in the whole, whole world that's the same, Daddy?" she asks. "My love for you and your love for me is the same my darling," he smiled. My father used to bake cupcakes for my birthday parties and for school when I was young, to this story was sort of close to my heart. I have pictures beautifully iced cupcakes. My grandmother also kept a stash of cupcakes at all times and we would enjoy a cupcake with tea. I now make gourmet chocolate cupcakes from scratch and think they are an essential part of life. The Little Cupcakes will teach children about diversity, tolerance, difference, disappointment, acceptance, love and similarity. ~The Rebecca Review

An Inspired Tale of Wisdom

The Little Cupcakes is a unique tale for all ages about tolerance and the importance of the individual; it is brilliantly written by a gifted writer, and the illustrations are wonderful.