Exactly what it says in the title. All about being thankful for apple cake with a recipe for apple cake at the end of the book. Pretty standard with some eye-catching pictures.

This charming early picture book follows a young child and her dog as they walk through nature and farms collecting everything they need to make apple cake. The idea of giving thanks for all the gifts of nature and friendship is conveyed clearly throughout the book. The illustrations are beautifully done and will engage young readers and listeners. The recipe at the end of the book looks delicious and would be a fun extension activity. Great for a preschool read aloud or classroom library addition for K-1 classrooms.

I loved this book. The illustrations were beautiful and the message was profound. I love the way everything came together with a recipe. So so so so excellent!

Thanks to NetGalley and Frances Lincoln Children's Book for granting my wish and making this book available to me.

Such a cute book with amazing illustrations. All about being thankful for what we have. Great message and love the recipe at the end!

A very sweet and adorable book with lovely illustrations and an important message. The younger kids will enjoy the rhyme and learning the new words, while I, a proper grown-up, will definitely use the recipe to cook a cake!

Cute quickly little book. Feel like this is a great family time/tradition making!! Didnt have the chance to try out the recipe but it sounded delicious ☺

Adorable! This title includes a great range of early literacy elements, while maintaining an engaging and identifiable story. The illustrations and story content lend themselves to so many great questions and teaching moments. This would be such a treat for young eyes and ears...and so would making an apple cake after! A must have!

This is a very beautifully illustrated picture book of a child gathering ingredients to make an apple cake, and being thankful to all of nature that provides.

It is a sweet thoughtful book, and the recipe at the end reads as though it would be very good, although I would probably buy the almond flour rather than grinding it up myself.

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I like the simple act of being thankful, to not only the apples, but to the people around her who helped make the cake.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Beautiful illustrations, rhyming text, and a message about gratitude make this a perfect read for young children especially if read around Thanksgiving time. I read this book to my five year old daughter who happens to look a lot like the little girl who is gathering items to make an apple cake. I could tell that my daughter was picturing herself as the little girl gathering items for the cake. She even told me later, "My favorite part was that the little girl was thankful for her family just like me." I feel like other young children will also be able to relate to the message of gratitude in this story and will easily be able to pick up on the repetitive words and rhymes of the book allowing them to chime in and read when the book is read again. If I were to make one suggestion for the book, I would have it include white flour instead of ground hazelnuts or almond flour. Then optional nuts could be thrown into the cake if the baker wants a nutty flavor. The recipe is written to look like it's for families to make with their little ones (it even tells you how to have a child cut an apple safely). Having unusual ingredients such as almond flour may turn some families away from purchasing the book because they know they won't have all of the ingredients to make the recipe. Families could easily find another recipe for apple cake on the Internet that matches their pantry closet (which is what I will do) so it really is a non-issue, but just something to think about. Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of Apple Cake: A Gratitude. All thoughts expressed in this review are my honest opinions of the book.

A quintessential example of how the simplest messaging and artwork can make a beautiful, moving, and effective narrative. Brava.

Beautiful, Beautiful book!!! Absolutely love the illustrations and how happy they made me feel. The words flow wonderful and easy to read to little ones or for beginning readers to work on. I need to own this book and try out the recipe at the end! I will be sure to follow this author to see what else there is!

A simple rhyming read that follows the journey of a little girl gathering all the ingredients to make an apple cake with her family. Along the way she expresses her gratitude to nature and to those she loves.

The illustrations by Genevieve Godbout are peaceful and match the tone of gratitude throughout the the book. Young readers will probably enjoy searching for the apple cake ingredients on every page.

Overall, I think this is a lovely book that will help children appreciate all that nature provides.

I absolutely love this one. The illustrations have this warm and inviting feel to them and they match the text beautifully. This book begs to be read aloud in story times with themes like apples, Thanksgiving, sharing, and friendship. It will absolutely be on my purchase list for this fall.

Such a beautifully crafted book - a rhyming tale, endearing illustrations and a recipe for an apple cake at the end!

Sweet and simply told, Dawn Cosey has written a delightful poem about being grateful to the wonderful world around you.

With warm and captivating illustrations by the extremely talented Genevieve Godbout, this is a picture book that will be appreciate by both young and old, and one that nobody will be forgetting anytime soon.

ARC Copy...Beautiful illustration that give a warm feel plus narrative that points not to be thankful in general but also how work and people are in involved in simple Apple Cake and we should be thankful for them.

Even though I read the book and of course know the title, I still didn't realize they were making apple cake until the end. 🤦🏼‍♀️🍎🍰😅 (It's maybe been a long day.)
Apple Cake was a simple beautiful rhyming book that I thing really young children would enjoy for storytime, bedtime, or anytime you would like to remind/teach children about gratitude. The Apple Cake recipe addition was the cherry (apple?) On top.

***Thank you to Quarto Publishing for providing me with a review copy.***

In today's busy world, many of us take the simple pleasures for granted. How often do we thank the world for its bounty and resources?
This gorgeous and beautifully illustrated book show us a young girl gathering ingredients and thanking everything and everyone along the way.
From the flowers to the farmers, the sun and the rain, and the "earth beneath our feet", she makes sure all are thanked for what they have given her.
We follow the girl on her path with her dog following her along the way. Each page is a painting that could adorn the walls of a gallery- stunning artwork!
A perfect book to teach children thankfulness and joy in the simple ingredients that come together to make a delicious apple cake.
The addition of the recipe at the back makes my mouth water- it is one I will definitely try to make.

Enjoy this book, it is truly special!

Beautiful words and illustrations! Apple Cake: A Gratitude by Dawn Casey is definitely a great addition to any library, and would make a lovely gift.

A girl and her dog seem to be just exploring the outside world, but it turns out the whole family is on a mission, and hers is only a part of it – yes, they're gathering ingredients for a jumbo apple cake for the whole lot of them to enjoy. Which is why in a lovely rhyme, but just in a few words per double-page spread, we get a prayer of thanks. Well, the subtitle says it's a "gratitude", but I didn't know that as a noun, so non-denominational, universally-acceptable prayer it is. We then get a recipe for the family to use, for our own apple cake, which shows that even in the small detail care has been taken over this book. I loved the idea of trying to peel a full ribbon of apple skin off in one go, which is what us adults do all the time anyway, so now children have been inspired to give it their best too. (I won't go into how stupid the idea of using 'cup' as a measurement is – how many apples is a 'cupful' – one, in a world where we don't have 60oz cups as standard). As for detail, it's certainly in the artwork too, which shows a wonderful style of illustration. More importantly still, perhaps, is the sense of the words as working as a harvest festival/apple festival/Thanksgiving text, which will definitely not get just the one use, but turn up to be enjoyed annually. One that is definitely for the family/school/institution library, then.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of this book!

What a wonderful book!! It is almost a prayer of gratitude fot kids. Often in children's books, gratitude is an underlying or a moral. However, Apple Cake is straightforward in helping kids be appreciative in our consumer world.

The illustrations are breathtaking! I especially appreciate the recipe at the end. This would be a wonderful fall read!!