Abstract

A heartwarming story about a cake baker and a girl.

On Christmas Eve morning, the cake baker gets up even earlier than usual to make 100 cakes: 99 to sell at the store and one special cake to eat with the cat "Kuro" after work. When the store opens, they are so busy that in no time at all, the cakes are sold out!　Soon the cake shop owner notices that there is a girl in the store. The girl wanted a cake, but the cake was already sold out. The girl, unable to buy the cake, started to cry.

Author’s Information

Reiko Nagao was born in Tokyo in 1963. She graduated from Tokyo YMCA Design Institute, Department of Design. Studied embroidery at the Scars Handicraft School in Denmark. Her picture books using embroidery include "The 10th Christmas Cake," "A Day in the Life of Santa Claus," and "Thank you, Santa Claus" (all published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc.).