There's a Dodo on the Wedding Cake

by Wade Bradford, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)

Overview

In a raucous sequel to There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor, Mr. Snore is back at the hotel to play his violin at a wedding—where his valiant efforts to protect the elaborate cake go hilariously awry.

For his return visit to the wacky Sharemore Hotel, Mr. Snore will be playing his violin at a fancy wedding. As he waits for his cue to join the ceremony, he admires the wedding cake . . . and notices that he’s not alone in ogling that tower of frothy perfection. Is that a dodo, eating one of the frosting roses? As more and more creatures enter the scene—including two beavers, a boa constrictor, and a bunch of bats—it’s hard to tell who’s a guest and who's a pest. But Mr. Snore, rushing the cake trolley from room to room, is going to do his heroic best to save that prize from sure disaster. From author and playwright Wade Bradford and award-winning illustrator Kevin Hawkes comes a madcap encore to There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor, starring the ever-proper Mr. Snore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536208849
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	09/08/2021
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	10.06(w) x 11.63(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Wade Bradford teaches English at Moorpark College and is the author of the picture books There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor, Papa Bear’s Page Fright, Why Do I Have to Make My Bed?, and Around the World in a Bathtub. He has also written more than thirty-five plays. Wade Bradford lives in Southern California.

Kevin Hawkes is the illustrator of many books for children, including the award-winning Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen; There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford; A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young by Halfdan Rasmussen, translated by Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Espeland; The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum by Nancy Willard; and Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. Kevin Hawkes lives with his family in southern Maine.

Editorial Reviews

Comic, dramatic, fast-paced illustrations reveal well-intentioned Mr. Snore’s cascading mistakes as he heroically thrusts and parries his bow and frantically steers the cake trolley across the pages. Diverse animals dressed in wedding finery border on the absurd, but none match proper Mr. Snore and his hilariously monumental proboscis. . . . A riotous, rib-tickling comedy of errors.
—Kirkus Reviews

Kids will love poring over the detailed illustrations, looking for hidden jokes, and learning that things aren’t always as they seem.
—Brightly

From the Publisher

2021-07-27
In this sequel to There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor (2018), Mr. Snore returns to the Sharemore Hotel for another memorable adventure.

Hired to play his violin at a hotel wedding, Mr. Snore arrives early. When the wedding planner offers him cocoa, Mr. Snore requests no marshmallows because they make him sneeze. Spying a dodo bird gobbling a frosting rose on the wedding cake, Mr. Snore chases it away. While the wedding planner looks for someone to repair the cake, Mr. Snore stands guard, wielding his instrument’s bow like a sword to fend off two beavers and a boa constrictor. Out of an abundance of caution, Mr. Snore moves the cake trolley into a dark closet, but it’s filled with bats. Pushing the trolley away from a pelican and an ostrich, Mr. Snore evades a dinosaur in a tuxedo, locking him in a freezer. Finally, the wedding planner intervenes, and Mr. Snore realizes he’s overreacted and badly misjudged everyone except the offending dodo. Just as all seems sorted out, Mr. Snore sniffs the marshmallow frosting on the wedding cake—with explosive results. Comic, dramatic, fast-paced illustrations reveal well-intentioned Mr. Snore’s cascading mistakes as he heroically thrusts and parries his bow and frantically steers the cake trolley across the pages. Diverse animals dressed in wedding finery border on the absurd, but none match proper Mr. Snore and his hilariously monumental proboscis. Mr. Snore presents White, and the wedding planner has brown skin.

A riotous, rib-tickling comedy of errors. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews