It's My Birthday

by Helen Oxenbury

Book Overview

What could be better than sharing a birthday cake with the friends who helped to bake it?

It's one lucky toddler's birthday, and of course there must be a cake. So the child asks some animal friends to gather ingredients, one by one: the chicken an egg, the bear some flour, the cat the butter and milk, the pig a pinch of salt, the dog some sugar, and the monkey a bunch of cherries for the top. After they all share the fun of making the...

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763649708
• ISBN13: 9780763649708
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Great choice, give as a 1st birthday gift

We checked this book out so many times at the library, we bought copies for us and to give as birthday gifts. Sweet story about cooperation of making cake and celebrating! I love Helen Oxenbury's soft watercolor illustrations - another great choice is "Going on a Bear Hunt"

Wonderful Book!

It is funny that the description of this book online says the main character is a boy, when in fact the author leaves the gender to be decided by the reader. My children (3 boys & 1 girl) love this book, and no one ever says anything about boy or girl. We have given this book many times as a birthday gift and have always had rave reviews for it. Highly reccommed for every house with children!

A wonderful and rare, gender-neutral picture book

It's interesting that some reviewers identify the child as aboy, when the author has in fact written and illustratied this storyto be gender-neutral. The child (and animals, for that matter) can be either male or female -- and that was the author's intention, as described in a note in the book. When the main characters in so many children's books are male for no reason other than the fact that Male is the default gender in our world, how nice for girls to be able to see themselves in the main character of this story (and how nice for parents to not have to change names and pronouns to provide a more balanced perspective when reading to our children).