Not Yet, Yvette Book

This is a story about a young girl who is preparing to surprise her mother for her birthday. Pre-primary and primary children could relate to all the work Yvette and her dad put in to planning the perfect surprise. They clean the house, get a present, bake a cake, wrap the present, decorate the house, and then wait anxiously for her mother. Some of the pages of the book are writing only, but surrounded by something that is being described on that page. On the first page it is the feathers that are in the duster that Yvette uses to dust the house, later it is the icing that they put on the cake or streamers that they use to decorate the dining room. I also love the idea that it is Dad who is helping with the surprise. You see him cleaning, baking, shopping. Things that real dads do, but are too often under-represented in books for children.