The narrative models both good and bad manners for young child readers and listeners, and highlights the idea that those guilty of bad manners can always choose to change.
But when a massive Cyclops mistakes our cake for a hat, his subsequent polite behavior, both to his fellow cyclopses and to the cake himself, inspired our misbehaving dessert to change his ways.I found Rude Cakes absolutely charming! Its matter-of-factly surreal story-line, in which sentient desserts live alongside cyclopses, makes for entertaining reading, especially for those who enjoy silly humor.
Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio.The confectionary hero of this delightful debut picture-book from author/illustrator Rowboat Watkins is one rude customer! Refusing to say please or thank you, cutting in line, ignoring his parents when they are speaking to him, our eponymous Rude Cake spends all day treating others poorly. How dirty can I be?”) make a familiar message about thoughtfulness as fresh and tasty as his confectionary cast. Watkins’s delicate lines and translucent colors give his story a sly, understated humor, and his liberal use of verbal asides (“Seriously,” says the cake as it sulks in a tub, “I’m a cake. But when the cake is spirited away to a land where goofy-but extremely polite-Giant Cyclopses use cakes for “jaunty little hats,” the cake discovers a way of life that’s kind, patient, and affirming (“Giant Cyclopses always say thank you, and they always say please”).
“Rude cakes never say please, and they never say thank you, and they sometimes take things that don’t belong to them,” writes Watkins as the inconsiderate, ungrateful, and selfish cake bullies other sweets and disrespects his four-tier parents. So what’s it going to be, kid? Are you a Rude Cake or a Giant Cyclops? Watkins, a former Sendak Fellow, debuts with an absurdist “Goofus and Gallant” story for the 21st century, about a thuggish, pink two-layer cake.
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