White Ravens’99/Mexico (Spanish)/70114
Bautista, Ana Gabriela (text)
 Coupry, Claudine (illus.)
 Cómo escalar un pastel
 (How to climb a cake)
 México, D.F.: Ed. Petra / Consejo Nacional 
 para la Cultura y las Artes, 1997. [24pp]
 ISBN 970-18-0647-6; 968-36-5389-8
 Cake - Mountain climbing - Nonsense
 How do you climb a cake? Actually it is no different than climbing a mountain, except that one needs to
 be especially cautious, for example of the treacherousness of cakes steeped in alcohol, and also be aware
 that anti-meringue boots are best suited for the job. Ana Bautista and Claudine Coupry have »baked« a
 colorful, baroquely playful picture book. The ingredients are: a crazy nonsense idea that invites the reader
 to continue fantasizing; bold, double-spread pictures in glowing, creamy colors on a rough, wallpaper-like
 background; and an imaginative typography that renders the short text quite inventively. (6+)

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