Also, I don't think ANYONE ever tastes the sugar mouse cake? So it's been picked as best based on how it looks alone? I don't know if today's kids raised on competition cooking shows are going to go for that.Īnyway, as a nostalgic read, it falls flat.Despite the hiatus, Harry has retained a strong presence in the picture-book marketplace. And the proceeds to eat so much cake that she ends up not feeling well. She loves the cheesecake so much she refuses to even TASTE the sugar mouse cake. Also, the queen, is clearly the villain in this. I mean, you are not going to be a happy camper if someone requests this a bedtime, because it is a COMMITMENT. So, pros: uh, the mouse is cute? The lowly chef proves his worth and moves up in the world?Ĭons: Well, the book is SO LONG. Tina is forced to stand in as a sugar mouse to hide the damage. No one believes in him (except perhaps his pet mouse Tina) and the other chefs try to trip him, resulting in damage to the cake. It's the story of a pastry chef, of the lowliest order who upon the head pastry chef's retirement enters a contest to win the job of head chef. I had fond memories of this and having just finished reading the Harry the Dirty Dog books, I requested this from the library. I "lost" it into my personal collection of books I am saving from certain destruction. I searched the Twin Cities library circuit: Bingo! We found a single battered copy floating around the MSP library system, which I requested, then "lost." Yes that is right. She searched the Southeast MN library circuit: no one had it anymore. My mom went to go try to get it out of the library again about 5 years ago and was told that the library "threw it away because we had to make room for a new Dora the Explorer shelf." Tragedy! Blaspheme! So I my mom and I began hunting online: the book was out of print. We took this book out of the Winona Public Library about once a month. The real beauty in this book is not in the story itself necessarily, but rather in the simple pictures of CAKES! We would spend, literally, hours paging through the book and arguing over our favorite cakes. I have a sneaking suspicion that the movie "Ratatouille" was inspired by the Sugar Mouse Cake. If you ask anyone in the Winona Kendall family what the favorite bedtime book was for all three of us (and my folks!), I think we would all say the Sugar Mouse Cake, hands down. One of the saddest things that occurs regularly at our public libraries is the trashing a great old books to make room for new ones. I've decided to start marking books that were my favorites as a child so I don't forget to buy them for the children in my life.
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