{"product_id":"blaze-and-the-castle-cake-for-bertha-daye-hardcover","title":"Blaze and the Castle Cake for Bertha Daye - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaude Ponti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClaude Ponti\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eAlyson Waters\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaude Ponti's nimble wordplay and punning, combined with his phantasmagorical and joyful illustrations, create an endearing gem of a book, bound to be a bedtime story favorite.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of the world's most beloved children's book authors comes a story of a high-spirited flock of friends building an unusual birthday cake. \u003cbr\u003eA rabble of soft, golden \"chicklets\" are awoken one morning to a startling proclamation: they only have ten short days to prepare for their best friend Bertha Daye's party. It's time to get to work building a larger-than-life castle cake to house and feed the revelers. Made of chocolate scooped out of chocolate mines, \"finer than fairy dust\" flour from the hillsides, and fruit carried down twigs and stems in the forest, this will be the best--and kookiest--cake of all time. Oodles of distinctive chicklets fill every page, scurrying, fluttering, napping, tumbling, helping, and getting up to no good. When the party day arrives, guests pour into the pastry palace, many of them unmistakable characters from iconic stories' past, offering a marvelous who's-who of story-book history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaude Ponti \u003c\/b\u003eis a French illustrator and children's author known for his inventive and playful use of words and the symbolic nature of his illustrations. His first book, \u003ci\u003eL'Album d'Adèle\u003c\/i\u003e, written for his newborn daughter, already displays the associative and dream-like presentation of children's interior lives that characterizes many of his works. Ponti was awarded the 2006 Sorcières Spécial prize for his contribution to literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyson Waters \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator of modern and contemporary literary fiction, criticism and theory, as well as art history. She teaches literary translation workshops at Yale University and at New York University, and now at Columbia.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 14.9 x 10.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766969827616,"sku":"9781953861184","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/769957731e769bca043fcab086afd7c9.webp?v=1780302065","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/blaze-and-the-castle-cake-for-bertha-daye-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}