"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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