Review: Good book, too much focus on beauty
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
This was a good book.  Great cartoon pictures.  Lots of bakery jokes that the adult reading will pick up.  It's a fun book for kids and adults.One thing bothered me.  The cupcake is the only girl character and she seems to be pictured as helpless and very concerned with her own physical image.  Normally things like that don't bother me, but it did in this book (I think because the language- for example, the first page said, "Cherry looks quite lovely and her frosting can't be beat.  All the other baked goods think that Cherry's quite a treat."  I get that they are baked goods, but when a book starts like that it starts with female physical image being important in the book.  It did redeem itself a little bit on two pages where the cupcake had a sword, but then a few pages later she appears helpless again.  So that is why I gave it a 4.It is a princess/prince story with baked goods.Overall, I don't think kids think things through that much and they will enjoy the puns in this book.  It is a fun theme.I look forward to seeing more books from this author.  It's quite creative.