Pancakes, Pancakes!
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Pancakes, Pancakes has been my favorite "elementary" book for years! I love this book even now and I am in middle school. Eric Carle is a great children's author. I have about every one of his books he has ever written. The illustrations are beautiful to look at and the stories are so appealing to young readers. Great job, Mr. Eric Carle!!!!!!!!
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My 2-year-old's FAVORITE book. He sleeps with it.
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There is something about this book that my 2-year-old loves. Linus has his blanket, my son has "His Pancake Book." It's colorful and has a cute story. He wants to read it every day and has to sleep with it at night (for almost a year, now). We originally got him the small $5 version but he had to have the 8X11 hardback. This one shows the pictures better and is extremely durable! He gives it 5 stars.
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It takes some hard work to make pancakes
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When Jack wakes up with a hankering for pancakes, he asks his mother to make them. Jack's mother is busy, though, and directs Jack to go through the labors of Hercules to fulfill his desire: Jack not only has to harvest and thresh the wheat and have the wheat milled, but he has to encourage the hen to lay an egg, milk the cow, churn the butter, fetch the jam, mix all the ingredients together and cook the pancakes over the stove. By my calculations, Jack doesn't get his pancakes until dinnertime. I kept expecting him to holler in frustration, "What the heck does a guy have to do to get a pancake?" On the other hand, none of these thoughts occurred to my three year old son. Fascinated by the book's colorful pictures, he enjoyed talking about what wheat is, where milk and eggs come from, that some cows have spots and wear bells, and how sometimes good things require patience and lots of hard work. And then we ate pancakes and jam.
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