SPRING CAKES

The kitten siblings are finally old enough to help Mom make magical spring cakes.

Orange kitten Ginger, calico kitten Cinnamon, and gray kitten Nutmeg wake up excited on the first day of spring, because that means spring cakes! Mom gives them a list of special ingredients, and they hurry through their breakfast porridge. They will need to collect: flour, silver honey, blue eggs, wild strawberries, and magical roses from the witch’s garden. They buy flour from the goat at the old mill, and from a bovine beekeeper, they buy pretty, silver honey made from the pollen of winter-blooming flowers. All goes smoothly until they go to pick the wild strawberries, when a purple bear claims them (a bit scarily). The bear says in exchange for the promise of a spring cake, the kittens can take a few. Only the magical roses are left, but the witch lives in the haunted woods! After that second scary venture, the kittens return home to make cakes with mother and, of course, share them with everyone. The panels in Harmon’s bright graphic novel in this entry in the new I Like To Read Comics series are big and friendly, and they are neatly filled with dynamic, eye-catching, colorful art. Appropriately, the language in the speech bubbles (and the few narrative boxes) is simple and straightforward. The only thing missing is a recipe!

Young kitty and comics lovers will be right at home.