The Cats and the Cake - (I Like to Read) by Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss

About the Book

Two cats fight over a cake, but ultimately learn the value of sharing.

Book Synopsis

Two cats. One cake. Who will get to enjoy the tasty dessert? A fun, simple story that kindergarteners and first graders can read on their own.

This is mine!
No, this is mine!

When a cake falls off a cart at the bakery, two cats claim it. A clever fox offers to help them share, but bit by bit eats the cake all up himself! With easy-to-read dialogue and cheerful art, The Cats and the Cake will have children laughing and reading at the same time.

This book has been officially leveled by using the Fountas & Pinnell Text Level GradientTM leveling system.

The award-winning I Like to Read(R) series focuses on guided reading levels A through G, based upon Fountas and Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high-quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read again and again with their parents, teachers or on their own!

Review Quotes

"Hamilton and Weiss (Noodleheads) bring a simple but outrageous tale alive. . . . Young readers will find it hard to resist Henry's renditions of colorful cupcakes, pies, and cakes in bright and colorful hues."--School Library Journal

"Henry's (Snow Is Fun) ink, watercolor, and acrylic paint cartoons have scoopfuls of comic pep and are as bright as a freshly iced confection. Hamilton and Weiss's (the Noodleheads series) dialogue balloons offer the repetition nascent readers need, along with humor that should elicit knowing chuckles."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss are acclaimed storytellers who have won an Irma Simonton Black Honor Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, several Storytelling World Awards, and an Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award. With Tedd Arnold, they are co-authors of the 2018 Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book Noodleheads See the Future.

Steve Henry is the author and illustrator of Here Is Big Bunny, Cat Got a Lot, and Happy Cat, which received a Kirkus star. Other work includes editorial illustration, ceramic tiles, and a series of bird puppets that have been sold in the Museum of Modern Art Design Store. His work is influenced by fine artists such as Matisse and Miró and illustrators such as Hillary Knight and Ludwig Bemelmans. Steve co-teaches Creating the Picture Book at Pratt Institute.