The book Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola is a fun story for children to follow through. There are only two pages that have text in them and that is the page with the recipe for pancakes and the page where the old lady is eating pancakes and there is a sign behind her that reads "If at first you don't succeed. Try, try again." The pictures in this book tell the story of an older lady that wakes up in the morning and decides that she wants to make pancakes for breakfast. She gets out the recipe, figures out what she needs and finds all of the ingredients. Once she has pulled out all of the items she needs, she leaves the room for a minute of so. While she is gone, her dog knocked everything on the floor and she does not have what she needs to make the pancakes. She smells pancakes being cooked at her neighbors. So she goes over to her neighbors house and in the end, she gets to eat pancakes at her neighbors.
Even though this book did not have any text that directed the story, the illustrations made the story line clear as day. Tomie dePaola is an incredible artist and the colors and emotions he puts into his illustrations are incredible. Text is not needed to follow his story and young children are able to 'read' on their own with this book. I like the illustrations because of their quality. As a child, I paid more attention to the pictures even if i could read the text because the pictures held more meaning to me. I think this is a great book for young children to learn left to right progression of a book and prepare for more advanced books with text. I was not able to find any awards this book won.
dePaola, Tomie (1978). Pancakes for Breakfast. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Such a great book!
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