I just didn’t really like it. I thought the illustrations were busy and text heavy, and the story was a bit dull. Papa Penguin is trying to throw a birthday party for Baby Penguin, and he enlists a lot of different animals to help, and he’s in charge of the food, but after buying fish, thinking everyone will like it, he keeps getting texts from his other guests about their dietary limitations, and instead of waiting until he’s heard from everyone to do his meal planning and shopping, he goes back to the grocery store after every text to buy something to suit the latest request, and then at the end he has to decide what he’s going to make with fish and ants and meat and leaves and durian and vegetables. So he decides to make a cake, with each layer being a different kind. Never mind that the animals who said they only eat leaves or only eat ants probably can’t digest cake. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just set out a buffet? I just don’t think small children are going to relate to grocery shopping frustration. It seemed long for little entertainment.