About this item
A little boy and his grandma are baking a cake together. When the cake comes out of the oven and is decorated, it s not just any cake but a very special one! Little ones will love experiencing the different steps in baking a cake: helping to find the supplies, measuring and combining the ingredients, and then frosting the cake. Speaking in short sentences, the little boy talks with his grandma as they work together. Expanding upon the child s simple sentences, Grandma speaks in longer sentences, adding substantial information and introducing new vocabulary. Cake Day is a loving story that, when read aloud with a favorite child, helps develop verbal and pre-literacy skills.Small Talk BooksTM are playful stories featuring young children and adults having fun and engaging in rich conversation.
About the Author
Ellen Mayer is a children's book author and early literacy educator who works with diverse families and young children. For many years she was a researcher at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She is also a brand-new grandma!Ellen creates picture books for young children - and the grown-ups who read to them. Her Small Talk Books® picture book collection, published by Star Bright Books, is fun for little ones and also helps adults learn ways to build the language of babies and young children through conversation during everyday small moments together. The most recent books, created with the Storytelling Math project at the nonprofit STEM education organization TERC, also help adults enrich young children's understanding of how math is part of daily life. BANANA FOR TWO is full of playful conversation about amounts of one and two; CLEAN UP, UP, UP! focuses on spatial relations.Ellen has also collaborated with the award-winning South African author Sindiwe Magona, to write a book for middle grade readers, BOOKS AND BRICKS: How a School Rebuilt the Community.Visit Ellen at www.ellenmayerbooks.com or @ellenmayerbooks on twitter.
