Ellen Mayer is an award-winning children's author who has worked as an education researcher and early literacy home visitor. Her other math story books, Banana for Two, Clean Up, Up, Up!, and Leaves to My Knees were also published by Star Bright Books. She lives with her husband and very large cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit: ellenmayerbooks.com. Ying-Hwa Hu is an award-winning illustrator. Her work has been exhibited at the Bologna Book Fair and The Society of Illustrators Original Art Show. Ying-Hwa has illustrated over 30 books, many of which she collaborated with her husband Cornelius Van Wright, also an illustrator and author. She lives in New York City with her husband. Visit: www.yinghwahu.com.

A loving story that helps develop language and pre-literacy skills when read aloud to a child is now available in board book format! A little boy and his grandma bake a cake together. Little ones will love experiencing the different steps of baking a cake: helping to find the supplies, measuring and combining the ingredients, and then icing the cake. Using short sentences, the little boy talks to his grandma as they work together. Expanding on the child's simple sentences, Grandma speaks in longer sentences, adding substantial information and introducing new vocabulary.