A Cake for Herbie

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Summary: We Love Lottie!
Review: A Cake for Herbie is a sensitive, charming story your pre-schoolers will adore. Herbie the duck reads about a poetry contest and with the encouragement of his best friend Lottie the chicken, he enters. He stays up all night working hard on his poetry, only to be laughed off the stage. Sad and disappointed, he walks into a restaurant where his poetry is appreciated and he wins his own special prize. Petra Mathers charming and amusing text is only outdone by her wonderful, expressive illustrations. This is a touching story your children will want you to read over and over again. You don't want to miss this very special book.

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Summary: Lottie and Herbie Never Disappoint
Review: A Cake for Herbie is a sensitive, charming story your pre-schoolers will adore. Herbie the duck reads about a poetry contest and with the encouragement of his best friend Lottie the chicken, he enters. He stays up all night working hard on his poetry, only to be laughed off the stage. Sad and disappointed, he walks into a restaurant where his poetry is appreciated and he wins his own special prize. Petra Mathers charming and amusing text is only outdone by her wonderful, expressive illustrations. This is a touching story your children will want you to read over and over again. You don't want to miss this very special book.

Rating:
Summary: delightful
Review: Herbie is a snag-a sensitive new age guy-who writes zany poetry, expresses his emotions and has a female best friend named Lottie as his supporter and confidant.

The colorful illustrations and lively text engage both the youthful listener and the adult reader time and time again. The pictures have imaginative details that delight the eye. My favorites are Herbie's cake decorated with sparklers, Lottie in the midst of an attack of the flu, Herbie's car traveling along a dark and deserted road, and Herbie riding behind Lottie on her sleek purple motor scooter.

As Herbie might have said if he'd gotten that far in his poetic culinary alphabet:: Z is for zieback, okay for a haversack, but I prefer zucchini tetrazzini.

Rating:
Summary: We Love Lottie!
Review: My two-year old is fascinated by Lottie and Herbie and I get a kick out of reading the Lottie series everytime. This one just might be our favorite though, because it's about food and poetry! Quirky and something different from so many other cutesy books, this one has humor, substance, and delightful illustrations.

Rating:
Summary: delightful
Review: Wonderful illustrations and a sweet, gentle story. We've read it every night for the past few weeks (at the request of my 2 and 4 year-olds) and NONE of us is tired of it yet. Great addition (3rd) to the "Lottie" series.