"A warm, delicious story to keep the fun of Christmas cooking"
December 2022 Book of the Month
The song The Twelve Days of Christmas is given a tasty spin in this delightful picture book.
On the first day of Christmas, the partridge brings dried fruit, on the second day two speckled doves bring flour, the hens have baking powder, penguins bring sugar and gradually the ingredients for a cake are assembled and, on day ten, baked. It’s iced on day eleven and eaten, at a big party, for tea on Twelfth Night.
The rhyme is delicious and Pippa Curnick’s illustrations are a joy too, each page packed with life and movement. The nine dancing ladies are gorgeous hippos in cherry pink tutus, the eleven pipers applying the swirls to the icing are guinea pigs. The end pages provide a recipe and explain the tradition of baking a cake to celebrate Twelfth Night. Scrumptious!
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The Big Christmas Bake is a funny, lively romp through the twelve days of Christmas, taking the elements of the popular carol, and weaving them cleverly into the ingredients for a Twelfth Night Cake.
Starting with the partridge and its gift of dried fruit, this rhyming story includes all of the familiar characters from the song as they all contribute to the baking of the magnificent Twelfth Night cake.
A trio of french hens bring baking powder
Six geese bring eggs, and lots of feathers too
Ten lords help carry the cake into the oven ready to bake
At the end of the story, there is a recipe included to bake your own cake at home, giving this book the potential to be a favourite Christmas story as well as a resource to be used every year in introducing a twelfth night cake tradition to a family.
Characterfully illustrated by Pippa Curnick The Big Christmas Bake is a beautiful, lyrical, and gently humourous Christmas story for the whole family to enjoy.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The BIG Christmas Bake and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
The BIG Christmas Bake features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Cooking / Food, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Practical interests, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Festive Fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Funny, Featured Books for 3+ readers
The BIG Christmas Bake is available in Hardback, Paperback
The BIG Christmas Bake was written by Fiona Barker and published by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
The BIG Christmas Bake has 32 pages
£7.19
