| YOU ARE MY LITTLE CUPCAKE spent 3 weeks on the St. Louis Independent Bookstores Bestseller List!!!! (2 of those weeks were at #1.) Click below to see the article from Week 1.
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| Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine (April 2011) |
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Amy's Books in the Blogosphere
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Calling all moms! Who can resist a children’s boardbook that compares a baby’s sweetness to our other favorite sweetness?
I am excited to learn that Amy Sklansky has a new children’s book coming out! You Are My Little Cupcake is illustrated by Talitha Shipman and will be published by LB Kids. The planned release date is April 19, 2011, but you can preorder your copy now from Amazon for only $6.99. I’ve already ordered mine!
--posted by Robin Merrill 11/20/2010
www.allthingscupcake.com
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Cupcake-themed board book You Are My Little Cupcake is out now! I bought a copy for my favorite 1-and-a-half-year-old, who also loves cupcakes and all things sweet. It has cute cupcake-related rhymes and is colorful, with a glittery cover, and quite adorable.
--posted by Rachel Kramer Bussel 4/15/11
http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com
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Meet author Amy E. Sklansky
Posted by Our365 on August 3, 2011 at 11:30am
http://community.our365.com/profiles/blogs/meet-author-amy-e-sklansky-and
You Are My Little Cupcake is one of those baby books that parents love, too. Its singsongy cadence and super-happy baby pictures are sure to engage infants and toddlers alike, while the book's sweet rhymes express the overwhelming love that new moms feel for their little ones - from the joy we take in our babies' smiles to our delight in their snuggliness. Just try to resist finishing this one without a hug!
Author Amy E. Sklansky answered our questions via email from her home base in Missouri.
Q: How did you come up with the cupcake idea? It sounds like something you started saying to a baby in your life and then decided to turn into a book.
A:The idea came from my former boss. She used to let me take my new baby to work with me. When she saw my daughter, she'd say, "What a little cupcake!"
Q:The illustration star some seriously sweet and happy babies!
A:The artist, Talitha Shipman, captures the warmth and simplicity of the text with her art. And her colors are so cupcakish. I also like the clever way she worked a cupcake image into each spread. Kids love to spot the cupcakes!
Q:How old are your kids?
A:Phoebe is 10 years old and Owen is 6. There is a dedication to them ("my little cupcakes") on the back of the book.
Q:Where's your favorite storytime spot?
A:My favorite place to read with my kids these days is snuggled next to them in their beds. When they were smaller, I used to sit sideways on the bed and they would sit on my lap and lean back against me. We called this "The Mommy Chair."
Q:What’s your favorite children’s book of all time?
A:What a difficult and impossible question! When schoolkids ask me this, I always tell them my favorite children's books this month. This month's favorites would be: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman, The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller, and Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes collected and illustrated by Salley Mavor. Ask me next month, and I'll have a whole new selection!
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You Are My Little Cupcake merges two delightful things, babies and cupcakes, in a frothy confection of a board book. Amy Sklansky draws a different analogy on each page, with pairs of page spreads forming rhyming couplets. Like this:
"Your skin is smooth as butter,
Your giggles sugar-sweet.
Your scent is so delicious--
Each hug's a special treat."
Talitha Shipman's pastel illustrations shows different parent/baby pairs, in a range of ethnicities, all with matching smiles. Pictures of cupcakes are in the background on every page, on the shower curtain, on a baby's bib, on a book cover, etc. The front cover of the book features a touch and feel cupcake wrapper, with ripples that make noise when kids run a fingernail across them. Although there are no touch and feel or flap elements inside, that cupcake is enough to draw a one-year-old's attention.
You Are My Little Cupcake would be a good gift book for any new parent, deliciously immersed in kissing, hugging, and tickling a new small person. And if that new parent should happen to be a fan of cupcakes, well, then you have a perfect fit. And really, who isn't a fan of cupcakes? You Are My Little Cupcake is a nice addition to anyone's board book collection.
Publisher: LB Kids (@LBSchool)
Publication Date: April 19, 2011
Source of Book: Review copy from the publisher
© 2011 by Jennifer Robinson of Jen Robinson's Book Page. All rights reserved.
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