Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake

By Michael Kaplan; Stephane Jorisch (Illustrator)
(Dial, Hardcover, 9780803734074, 32pp.)

Publication Date: May 5, 2011

Categories: Cooking & Food, Social Issues - New Experience, Humorous Stories

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Summer 2011 Kids' Next List

“I'm going to marry chocolate cake!' states Betty Bunny after she tries her first piece, and who can blame her? Once Betty Bunny has discovered the wonderful goodness of chocolate cake, it is all she wants, and she has problems being apart from it. The illustrations of Stephane Jorisch bring Betty Bunny's adventures with her precious chocolate cake to life, and the situations she gets herself into will have you and your child laughing out loud. This is a hilarious tribute to the most wonderful food out there, and to all of the picky eaters who won't try anything new.”

-- Amber Sentance, Vero Beach Book Center, Vero Beach, FL

Description

When Betty Bunny eats chocolate cake for the first time, she declares, "I am going to marry chocolate cake." She loves it so much that she takes a piece to school with her in her pocket and refuses to eat anything else. Mommy tells Betty that she has to eat healthy food first, and have patience because cake is for dessert, not pockets. But Betty doesn't want to have patience; she wants to have chocolate cake!

In this hilarious and spot-on tribute to the chocolate lover (and picky eater) in all of us, a new kindred spirit to Olivia, Eloise, and Ladybug Girl makes her stand.

About the Author

A native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Michael Kaplan wrote plays and musicals throughout high school and at Princeton University, where he attended college. Upon graduation he moved to New York where a number of his plays received productions and staged readings, primarily at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is a member. For the past twenty-two years, he has lived in Los Angeles, working as a television writer and producer on a total of twelve different prime time shows for ABC, NBC, FOX, and UPN. His career as a comedy writer has included stints as a writer and Supervising Producer on two of television's most respected comedies, Roseanne and Frasier. For his work on the latter, he received an Emmy award, as a member of the producing staff, for best comedy series. He co-created and Executive Produced I'm In the Band for Disney XD. His new show, Dog With a Blog will be premiering on Disney Channel in the fall of 2012. He is the author of Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake and Betty Bunny Wants Everything. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Stephane Jorisch has illustrated numerous picture books, including New Year at the Pier, Granddad's Fishing Buddy, The Real Story of Stone Soup, and Jabberwocky, for which he won the prestigious Governor General's Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Caldecott. Mr. Jorisch lives with his wife and three children in Montreal, Canada.

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