Here comes Babymouse!

BABYMOUSE: CUPCAKE TYCOON is the thirteenth graphic novel in the award winning BABYMOUSE series. The BABYMOUSE series chronicles Babymouse’s adventures in hilarious dialog and black, white, and pink illustrations. Who can resist BABYMOUSE's pinktastically creative antics?  Not me!  Neither can the kids.  These graphic novels fly off the library shelves as soon as they come in. 

In CUPCAKE TYCOON, Babymouse’s school library is having a cupcake selling fund-raiser thanks to the library sprinkler accident caused by her overactive imagination. Babymouse is determined to outsell all the other students and win the “special” prize.  

I read this book and had visions of  library cupcake decorating awesomeness.  Unfortunately, my co-workers envisioned colored icing stains and embedded carpet sprinkles.  I have conducted food tween programs in the public library meeting rooms before.  They were....messy (steam clean the carpet the next day messy).  Oh well. 

The publisher's website has downloadable BABYMOUSE comic fill-in worksheets so children can create their own BABYMOUSE graphic novel. I have used similar downloadable templates for a tween graphic novel book club.  This was very fun and the kids took templates home so they could  continue creating. Have any other tween librarian conducted any BABYMOUSE Awesome BABYMOUSE programming?  I would love to hear about it!

BABYMOUSE Book Trailer:

Holm, Jennifer & Matthew Holm. 2010. BABYMOUSE: CUPCAKE TYCOON. NY: Random House. ISBN 978-0375965739.