The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this...

"Textures and pull tabs enhance the action, and laughs flow lickety-split as a cast of cavorting creatures proves that tongues can do much more then taste?"--P. [4] of cover.

Explore the ways that Pooh and his pals use seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching to discover the many enjoyable uses of apples, from sticky, honey-coated treats to aromatic apple pies