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 It's My Birthday - Helen Oxenbury
 It's My Birthday - Helen Oxenbury ... Winner. The toddler in this story is celebrating his birthday and wants to make a cake. So he asks his animal friends for help in getting the ingredients. The chicken gets some eggs, the bear gets flour, the cat gets butter and milk, the pig gets a pinch of salt, the dog gets sugar and the monkey gets some cherries. Then all of them help to make the cake - and eat it, of course! Helen Oxenbury won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1979, and her other books include the First Picture Books Tom and Pippo and three Smarties Book Prize-winning picture books, So Much (also Winner of the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award), Farmer Duck and We're Going On A Bear Hunt (both of which were also Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal), Animal Allsorts and Puzzle People.Newest Review: ... supplies by reaching into the fridge. How he gets it open, children tend not to question! At this stage, it becomes obvious ... more ... that the text is repetitive. The little person says it’s his birthday, that he’s going to make a cake, and then lists the ingredients he already has. He then tells us what he needs, and the appropriate animal offers to get that particular ingredient. I like this because it gives young children a sense of familiarity with the text and helps them to read along with you.
The story goes along in this vein, with the pig giving salt, the dog supplying sugar and the monkey supplying the cherries for the top of the cake.
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It's My Birthday - Helen Oxenbury: It's my Birthday (763 words)
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It’s my birthday A beautifully simple book, published in 1993; it has stood the test of time because children have birthdays and they understand the importance of a cake. This is a book even very young children can relate to and can draw comparisons with their own birthdays. **THE STORY** Very very simple. It’s about a little boy or girl (it’s made purposefully ambiguous, so both sexes can relate to the story) is looking forward to their birthday and says that he/she is going to make a cake. (For the purpose of this review I am going to call the little person he) So we begin an informative little account of which ingredients ... Read the complete review
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