Pancakes for Breakfast

Bibliography: DePaola, T. (1978). Pancakes for breakfast. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Annotation: Pancakes for Breakfast is a picture book that illustrates a woman who wakes up wanting pancakes for breakfast. However she runs into some minor setbacks. First she doesn’t have eggs, so she must get some from the hen house. Next she must milk the cows because has no milk. Finally she notices that she does not have any syrup so she travels to the neighbors. Once she gets home she finds her cat and dog have eaten all of the batter. The woman smells her neighbors making pancakes and travels their home to eat some.

Genre: Non-Fiction, Picture Book

Grade: Preschool-2

Readers: Young beginner readers would love this book. Readers that like picture books would also like this book as well.

Rate/Response: 10, I love this book. It has great illustrations for a child with some humor that they would be able to understand. I love that there were very few words because this made the book very imaginative and entertaining. I think children would love to make up their own dialogue to the book.

Question: Do you like pancakes? Have you ever made pancakes? Have you ever tried to make something but didn’t know you were missing ingredients.