I Really Want the Cake is a delight - pure joy from start to finish. The rhyming verse with its cake refrain is great fun to read aloud and I can vouch that it stands up to repeated readings (my son always asks to hear the book at least twice on the bounce).
The story is one of temptation. Mom has made a magnificent chocolate cake and then gone out, leaving her daughter strict instructions: she must not eat the cake. This is too much for the little girl and her pet dog to bear. They try hard to resist. They leave the kitchen and employ all sorts of distraction techniques but the lure of the chocolate cake is too strong.
I absolutely love Lucia Gaggiotti's illustrations; they are so full of energy and humour and really bring the story alive. She has given us a wonderfully expressive main character with many different guises. One minute she's dancing as she smells chocolate cake wafting from the kitchen, the next she's a gun-slinging Wild West hero (the gun in her holster replaced with a fork and spoon). She is also a Chinese warrior, explorer and superhero.
This is a funny, highly entertaining picture book. Grab yourself a copy - you're in for a treat.

Vorwort
In this energetic picture book, a little girl tries to resist an amazing cake.

Autorentext

Simon was born in Chichester in 1988 and has lived there ever since. After studying History at Exeter University, he decided to become a primary school teacher. Teaching rekindled his love of children's books, so much so that he decided to have a go at writing his own. He is the author of I Don't Know What to Call my Cat, You Must Bring a Hat, and the I Really Want series: *I Really Want the Cake (*2017) **shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, *I Really Want to Win (*2019), I Really Want to Shout (2020), I Really Want to Share (2022) and I Really Want to Help (2024).

Klappentext

There's a smell I can't ignore.
It's wafting through the kitchen door.
It's time for me to find out more.
*I think it might be cake.
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How do you resist the most amazing cake ever? Especially when your mum has left a note saying that you MUST NOT eat the cake?

This wonderful rhyming text from Simon Philip, author of You Must Bring a Hat, is illustrated with huge energy and humour by Lucia Gaggiotti.

Zusammenfassung
There's a smell I can't ignore. It's wafting through the kitchen door. It's time for me to find out more. I think it might be cake. How do you resist the most amazing cake ever? Especially when your mum has left a note saying that you MUST NOT eat the cake?