Cakes, cookies or pie? A rivalry among local bakers is the basis for
this deliciously sweet, off-the-wall picture book.
Monsieur Oliphant's cake shop, the only bakery game in town, has long
had customers lining up outside its door for Oliphant's delicious jelly
rolls and marvelous wedding cakes . . . until the day cookie concocter
Mademoiselle Fée takes over the old shoemaker's shop. And it isn't long
before the divine piemaker Madame Clotilde soon moves into the old
bric-a-brac shop. Three different bakers all trying to outclass one
another means their little cul-de-sac is packed with customers every day
and night, so, one morning, when everyone is bumpling and jostling each
other with their cakes, cookies and pies, a food disaster -- a massacre
of cream, a devastation of crumbs -- is inevitable! Only one little girl
has the drive (or appetite?) to find a solution, but can it last? This
madcap tale of frenzied cooks and zany eats (and one very lucky town)
will delight readers with a sweet tooth of any age!