Patty Cakes and the Stolen Ball

By JV Carr

Seven-year-old Patty is a sweet little girl who has lots of stuff people should know about herlike the fact that trouble has become her very good friend.

Her twin sister Penny never gets in any trouble, and everybody thinks Pattys two-year-old sister Emma is a charm. Even Pattys dog Bones seems to get in less trouble than she does! And oh yeahher older brother Thomas can be so annoying, especially when he accuses her of stealing his all-time favorite lacrosse ball. Well, pretty soon, the entire family looks and looks for that darn ball, but when they cant find it, Pattys brother takes the issue of the stolen ball to school the next day. That means war!

Even though Patty tries to see happiness in her day, trouble still finds her in more ways than one. And heres the thingits not nice to blame others for something you didnt see them do!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490844701

JV Carr

JV Carr has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is a children’s writer. Her six children are her inspiration, along with the many international students she and her husband host from around the world. She’s the author of Username: Bladen, a YA fantasy novel published through Westbow Press.

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People illustrations by Beth Thomas

Other illustrations by Abigail Redmond

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-4469-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-4470-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014912647

WestBow Press rev. date: 08/14/2014

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Stolen

Chapter 2 Table Talk

Chapter 3 School, Yay

Chapter 4 War!

Chapter 5 Whew

Chapter 6 Found It

Also by JV Carr, Username: Bladen

For my sweet daughter, Christin, who asked me to write this book for her.

Acknowledgments

Thank you, Beth Thomas, for all of the talented sketches of the children in this book and for the adorable cover sketch. You brought the characters to life. Thank you, Abigail Redmond, for the cookie, ballet, and dog sketches. They’re beautiful.

Chapter 1

Stolen

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Hi! I’m Patty. My full name is Patricia M. Lowry.

I hope we become friends!

Here’s some stuff you’ll probably want to know about me. I’m seven. I’m in second grade. And most people call me Patty.

My parents nicknamed me Patty Cakes. They even sing the rhyme with my name Patty Cakes, Patty Cakes, Baker’s man! I roll my eyes every time they sing it. I don’t even like cake.

And I definitely don’t look like cake. I look tall. That’s because I am. I have long

Reviews for Patty Cakes and the Stolen Ball

[mypennameonly · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The best kind of children’s books I love to read/review are the ones which teaches its young readers important life lesson in an entertaining manner, while at the same time doesn’t hit its readers over the head with the lesson. Patricia Lowry or Patty Cakes as she’s known to her friends is a sweet girl who unfortunately has the tendency to be blame for things she didn’t do. Being a child of the 1950’s, this became somewhat nostalgic for me as I remembered watch a TV series segment of the Mickey Mouse Club entitled “Annette” in which Annette Funicello played a country bumpkin living with her upperclass relatives. She gets picked on by her classmates and at a party gets accused a stealing an expensive necklace worn by her school’s most liked and admired girl during a party, which ruined her existence. At the end of this series, several months later, at another party, the necklace is finally found when someone is asked to play a song which had been played at the first party. The girl who had blamed Annette for the theft apologize, and the two became good friends.When Patty’s brother, Thomas, loses his “treasured” lacrosse ball naturally she’s the one who gets blamed for its disappearance. An interesting thing is, Patty seems to be able to skillfully reduce serious problems when she’s faced with them. However, she apparently can’t do the same when it involves him. Needless to say, at the end of the story the missing lacrosse ball is found in a place no one seemed to bother to look previously.Ms. Carr’s simplistic writing style in this book, reminds me of the Dick and Jane reader I read in first grade, which lends itself perfectly to the way many children talk amongst themselves and brings them into the story and the important lesson it attempts to communicate. For the reasons I’ve attempted to address in the above, I’m happy to give this book 5 STARS.