Destiny Ink’s school is holding a baking competition and she’s determined to win (Destiny never does anything by halves). She helps her mum create a wonderful carrot cake, but they’re dancing when the timer goes off and it gets a bit burned. Mum fixes that, only for Destiny to accidentally drop it. There are even more recoveries and mishaps before the day of the competition arrives.
Spoiler alert: Destiny and her best friend Olivia don’t win, but they agree they’ve had the best time ever.
With the author’s own black and white illustrations throughout, this is another lively, heartwarming story, full of smoothly delivered life lessons. Destiny is a great central character, whose cheerfulness, creativity and imagination can be an inspiration to us all.
Destiny uses her creativity to overcome her worries! The fourth in the brilliant new highly-illustrated chapter book series, perfect for readers moving on from Tom Percival's Big Bright Feelings picture books and fans ofJoJo & Gran Gran.
Destiny is really excited to enter a baking competition, it's going to be INKTASTIC!
But when her cake doesn't turn out how she expected, she feels disappointed. Destiny's best friend suggests baking together. Destiny isn't sure but she uses her trusty sketchbook to work through her worries and gets lots of great ideas.
'This is a warm and reassuring chapter book about friendship, anxiety and coping with new experiences' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce,The Times
'It promotes positive friendships, familial relationships and attitudes without being condescending... an engaging choice for readers exploring early chapter books' -Booktrust
Author
About Adeola Sokunbi
Adeola Sokunbi is a writer-illustrator from London. She is an obsessive doodler and lover of fantasy stories. She also writes her own graphic novels. She studied Computer Visualisation and Animation at Bournemouth University.
Adeola works for an animation company as a Studio Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist.
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