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"NO ONE BLENDS FUNNY WITH SWEET LIKE DAN ELISH!"
- Billy Aronson, Emmy winning co-creator of PBS Kids' PEG + CAT
For eleven years in a row, John Applefeller has entered his highly original apple desserts in The Worldwide Dessert Contest. And every year he's watched his delectable treats turn into disasters while the evil Sylvester Sweet wins first prize. But this year, when John's great creation, the world's largest apple pancake, flops, he and his sidekicks decide to seek help from the king of dessert chefs, the magical Captain B. Rollie Ragoon.
Praise for THE WORLDWIDE DESSERT CONTEST:
"The plot goes down as easily as ice cream and is topped with plenty of laughs, both subtle and broad. Certainly its silliness makes for a pithy read-aloud and a booktalker's dream. Call this delicious."
- Booklist, starred review
"Elish writes with a sure hand of this sugary world, his tongue squarely in the area of his sweet tooth. For his ability to praise desserts in an endlessly original fashion, he deserves a blue ribbon."
- Publisher's Weekly
ISBN : 978-1-78796-262-0
Published: 09/04/2026
Pages : 194
Size : 234x156
Imprint : Bumblebee Books
Dan Elish
Dan Elish co-wrote the book to the Broadway musical 13, which has been performed all over the world and is now a movie on Netflix. He is also the book writer and co-lyricist to Off Broadway's The Evolution of Mann. Additionally, he is the author of twelve novels for readers of all ages, including The Worldwide Dessert Contest, Nine Wives, and Born Too Short, which won an International Reading Association Students' Choice Award for young adult literature. Dan lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
