Growing Readers: A Sweet Idea

Today I was the mystery reader in Megan’s classroom. In celebration of national reading month family members have been invited to drop-in and read to their child’s class. I read The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. It happens to be Megan’s favorite book. The story is about a little boy bunny who tells his mother that he is going to run away. The problem is that for every way the Little Bunny can think of to escape, his Mother Bunny has a plan to catch him. When I read the story to Megan she always requests that I change the pronouns to turn the boy into a girl bunny. I think she likes to pretend that she is the Little Bunny.

For the second year in a row Megan, Paul and I made a book cake to share with Megan’s class. The theme at school this month was “fishing for books.” For our book cake we decided to re-create the illustration from The Runaway Bunny where the Little Bunny hides in a trout stream and his Mother Bunny goes fishing for him.

Last year we made a The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake based on the picture book by Eric Carle. I wrote about it here. I used the same technique for both cakes – white frosting “painted” with food coloring. Once again our book cake was a hit.