Book description
A hilarious cumulative story about baking a 'pancake-cake' for the cat with three birthdays a year!
When Pettson sets out to make Findus a cake, he finds that he's missing a key ingredient. This starts a hilarious chain of events resulting in Pettson distracting a bull, climbing through a…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Birthday Cake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Pettsson and his talking cat Findus go about their every day life and all the books have lovely drawings where you can spend a lot of time finding different details. In this book they are going to make a birthday cake for Findus, but a lot of problems arises on the way.
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