Bake Sale
Sara Varon
First Second, 2011
$16.99, Paperback
978-1596434196
April 18th, 2012
Genre:
Realistic
Age: 8+
Description: Cupcake leads a happy life—he has a bakery,
plays drums in a band, and has Eggplant as his best friend. However, when he
discovers that Eggplant has a chance to meet Turkish Delight, Cupcake’s
favorite baker, Cupcake is sad. Eggplant says he can come on his trip if he can
make the money for a plane ticket. So Cupcake drops out of his band to open his
bakery more hours and begins going to various events to sell his goods. When he
finally has enough money for the trip, he learns that Eggplant can’t go because
he lost his job. Doing the nice thing, Cupcake pays for Eggplant’s plane
ticket. Meanwhile, he looses all will to cook anything. When Eggplant returns
with spices from Turkish Delight, he helps Cupcake get his cooking groove back
and they work at the bakery together.
Opinion:
This is an adult graphic novel marketed at children who will find the
anthropomorphic food items adorable but will be bored but the story itself. It
features adult themes—jobs, getting laid off, mid-life crisis—that aren’t that
interesting or relatable to kids or tweens. Also slightly disturbing is that
fact that these characters are shown to be food items and they eat other food
items—cannibalism. It’s also not wordless like Varon’s much better Robot Dreams.
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