Lucas earlier stories have included Halibut Jackson, The Robot and the Bluebird and Whale. Instead of getting eaten, Cake Girl shares the witchs birthday and they end up as best friends.
Cake Girl realises that the witch is lonely rather than nasty and so teaches her how to make friends. Happily, that is where the echoes of Hansel and Gretel end as Cake Girl finds a way to encourage the witch to become more likeable. Cake Girl is charged with entertaining the witch and doing the housework. Interviewĭavid Lucas Cake Girl is a lavishly-illustrated picture book about a witch who bakes a Cake Girl to keep her company on her birthday.
His first book for Andersen Press, Halibut Jackson was published to great acclaim. David Lucas grew up in Hackney, East London, and studied illustration at the Royal College of Art.
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