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32 pp.
| Philomel |
July, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-17160-4$17.99
(4)
K-3
Cupcake runs her birthday party ideas past her friend Muffin, who finds fault with each suggestion (e.g., at a beach party, the sun would make chocolate guests "drippy"). As in Border's Peanut Butter & Cupcake, the story plays second banana to the food-centric photographs, for which he manipulated and augmented three-dimensional objects to incongruously droll effect (note Hamburger's frosted bun).