Pancakes for Breakfast is a very good wordless book for children to picture read. The pictures are full of color and enjoyable to look closely at. Tomie dePaola did a great job with interpreting a story without the use of words and children of all ages can understand what the old lady is looking for throughout the book.
The book, Pancakes for Breakfast, is about an old lady who wakes up in the morning hungry for, you guessed it, pancakes! So the old lady gets up and goes to the kitchen to make her pancakes with her cat and dog. She gets her flour, but is missing eggs, so she goes to the hen house to get some eggs. As she continues with her pancake recipe she notices she is missing other key ingredients to mix her special pancake batter. How does she attain these ingredients? Will she be able eat her delicious pancakes that she dreamed of?
This book is fun and can be used as a problem solving book for young students. Being able to look at a book and try to decipher what will happen on the next page is part of the fun. Wordless books are good for all ages and give the opportunity to read by pictures. I enjoy looking at this book and seeing the actions that the old lady takes with every new page to do whatever it takes to have delicious pancakes for breakfast!
I saw this book on Amazon when I was putting in an order for some wordless books. I did not end up ordering it, so I was glad to see your review. Published in 1978, it was older than the wordless books that I ended up ordering. It would be interesting to see how the genre has emerged over the years.
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