Dudley Bakes a Cake

On the book cover the artist is given the most prominent space and is followed by 'text by Judy Taylor'. This suggests that the pictures came first and someone was found to put a story to them. The book itself also suggest this. The words and pictures sit uneasily together, I feel; neither adds to the other and whole incidents go on in the pictures which the words ignore. The pictures are pretty and interesting, but the plot is very predictable - 'I bet the cake rises too much and bursts the oven,' said Paul in my class, without much excitement. It did.