How We Share Cake

Publisher: Scribble US, Oct. 8, 2024 - 52 pages

ISBN: 9781957363851

Grade level: K - 2 

Korean Note: Koreans use different words for “sister” or “brother” depending on whether the speaker is younger or older than the person they are addressing and their sibling’s gender.  It can also depend on the gender of the speaker. (copied from the imprint page of the book) 

The speaker of this book is sharing her story of how her siblings share items.  There are three sisters and two brothers and things are shared evenly as far as possible.  She opens by telling us that her family can share anything five ways.  Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is hard.  Sometimes you don’t mind not having as much as your siblings (broccoli) and other times it is hard to know how much is your share (Cotton Candy).

Even clothing can be shared by waiting your turn for the hand-me-downs.  But some things you don’t want to share like the speaker who was taking her turn on the scooter, who fell off and broke her arm.  She has to go to the emergency room and get a cast on her arm.  On the way home, they stop to buy a cake.  She realizes that she can choose the kind of cake and begins to muse what it might be like to be an only child.  She eventually chooses a white cake with six strawberries on it.  The last page shows the cake divided into five sections and the extra strawberry divided into five sections.   

Reviewed by Audrey Campbell, MED

Reading Specialist and Library Media Center Director

Valley Adventist Schools, Rogers Campus

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