Cake Mix: Learning to Love All Your Ingredients
Written by Mikki Hernandez
Illustrated by Victoria Lewis
Published by Paw Prints Publishing
A young mixed-race girl named Remy, encounters that intrusive question, “What are you?” during her first day at a new school, which sends her on a journey towards self-acceptance. Feeling confused about where she belongs, Remy learns about ethnicity and what it means to be mixed by doing her favorite activity with her mother: baking. When she then returns to school, Remy shares the importance and deliciousness of celebrating different backgrounds with all of her classmates.
NOTE: Remy is a mix of Mexican, Polish, African, and Indigenous American.
Primary ISBN: 9781223186429
Publication Date: July 2023
Available As: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Picture Book, Age 05 or older
Community Represented: Mexican/Mexican American, Various
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by School
Setting: Unknown
Character's Place in the Immigration Journey: Unknown
Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience
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