The Worldwide Dessert Contest

About the Book

“The plot goes down as easily as ice cream and is topped with plenty of laughs, both subtle and broad. Certainly its silliness makes for a pithy read-aloud and a booktalker’s dream. Call this delicious.”

- Booklist, starred review

“Elish writes with a sure hand of this sugary world, his tongue squarely in the area of his sweet tooth. For his ability to praise desserts in an endlessly original fashion, he deserves a blue ribbon.”

- Publisher’s Weekly

Dan Elish is the author of numerous books for children, including Jason and the Baseball Bear, The Great Squirrel Uprising and Born Too Short, Confessions of an 8th Grade Basket Case, published by Simon and Schuster in the winter of 2002. He lives with his wife in New York City.

For eleven years in a row, John Applefeller has entered his highly original apple desserts in The Worldwide Dessert Contest. And every year he’s watched his delectable treats turn into disasters while the evil Sylvester Sweet wins first prize. But this year, when John’s greatest creation, the world’s largest pancake, flops, he and his sidekicks decide to seek help from the king of dessert chefs, the magical Captain B. Rollie Ragoon.

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