This story is quite fantastical, yet it made total sense to my students. They were quite enthralled with the story and easily made predictions and connections as we read.
Have you ever had a time where things just didn't turn out as you hoped they would? Same with Jack...but he has a can-do attitude!
This would be a great book to pair with The Book of Mistakes.
I found this idea on Goodreads by Sarah Wheeland:
“Boys and girls, imagine you are planning out a project or surprise for someone and you know it is going to be the absolute best thing you have ever thought up! You think about every detail and plan each part so it will be absolutely perfect. When the time comes, your project starts out just like you imagined it would but then things start to go very wrong and in the end it is nothing like you thought it would be. Has this ever happened to you?”
Pause and wait for student responses.
“Well that very thing is what happens to Jack, a character we are going to meet today in the book Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming. I want you to think about what is happening to Jack while I read. How is it similar to what you have experienced? How is it different? What is it called when we look for things that are the same and different between to events or experiences?”
Pause for student responses (compare and contrast).
“Be sure to listen, compare and contrast in your head. When I am finished reading, you are going to write a response in your Reading Journal comparing and contrasting what happened to Jack’s great plan in the story and what happened to one of your great plans!”
Goodreads says:
Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale, which received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Bank Street College of Education.
What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth birthday party but didn’t have money for a gift? Well, clever Jack decides to bake the princess a cake.
Now he just has to get it to the castle in one piece. What could possibly go wrong?
Candace Fleming and G. Brian Karas, creators of the bestselling picture book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, have teamed up again to bring us a modern fairy tale starring a determined boy and a story-loving princess with a good sense of humor. While girls will fall for a story featuring a princess’s birthday party, Jack’s adventures with trolls, bears, and gypsies make this the perfect read for young boys as well—and ideal for storytime.
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