FICTION

Sometimes Cake

by Edwina Wyatt (text) & illus. by Tamsin Ainslie
Candlewick. Jan. 2022. 32p. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781536217810.
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PreS-K–Tiny Audrey and large Lion share a comfortable, go-with-the-flow, give-and-take kind of best friendship. “‘What are you celebrating,’ asked Audrey. ‘Orange mostly,’ said Lion. ‘Also yellow.’ Audrey liked orange. She suggested purple, too.” These two find amicable ways to celebrate birthdays, days of the week, and colors. When an ordinary day has Lion looking despondent, Audrey proves that even ordinary days can be honored. Endearing illustrations made with wispy pencil lines and delicate washes of watercolor on a white background are scattered with dainty details and are well-suited to the whimsy of the text.
VERDICT The story line is as airy as the pictures, but in tandem they quietly conjure the world of a sweet friendship.
Reviewed by Jan Aldrich Solow, formerly Fairfax County Public Sch., VA , Nov 01, 2021

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