A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake by Debra Frasier - Main

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You’re Invited!

Debra Frasier, creator of the children’s
classic On the Day Your Were Born,
has invited you to a birthday
celebration of gigantic proportion.

And guess what?
It’s for you!

A party of this magnitude calls for
a cake, of course—a spectacular cake,
a cake made with very special ingredients.

	Critical acclaim for Debra Frasier’s beloved On the Day You Were Born The story that welcomes every child to this world
	“Frasier’s book is sure to find a special niche in the hearts of many readers . . . Reading this picture book aloud to a child, even the most jaded among us may feel again the sheer miracle of our human existence. A+” —Entertainment Weekly	Parent’s Choice Gold Award Publishers Weekly Children’s Bestseller Hungry Mind Review Book of Distinction NCTE Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Language Arts NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children ABC Children’s Booksellers’ Choice

Photo Credit: Ian Hunter

Debra Frasier comes from a family that loves birthday celebrations, and her daughter, Calla, inherited this love. When Calla was little, she always wanted to stop at the bakery counter in the grocery store to study the birthday cake display book, admiring the flowers and trucks and fairies and superheroes made of icing.

Eventually Calla began drawing designs for her own cakes and bringing them to the neighborhood bakery. That’s how she ended up blowing out candles on a Blue Morpho Butterfly Rain Forest cake, a Pippi at Bat cake, and a Hollywood Limo cake (among many others).

In 1989, when Calla celebrated her first birthday, Debra wrote this sentence on a yellow pad: She’s finished her first circle around the Sun, and now she is one. Mix that scribble with Calla’s now eighteen years of birthday cakes; stir in Debra’s love of stars, oceans, rivers, trees, canoes, and books—and you have the recipe for A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake.

To learn more about Debra’s books, birthday cakes, and outdoor adventures, visit www.debrafrasier.com.