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Baby Strawberry Shortcake
A Surprise for Baby Blueberry Muffin
Shy Baby Peach Blush has difficulty inviting her friends to come see her beautiful peach trees.
- GenresChildrens
39 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1984
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December 9, 2025A Surprise for Baby Blueberry
Baby Blueberry Muffin wakes up knowing it’s a special day. She opens her window and gets a sweet smell. Her blueberries are ready to be picked. All the bushes are filled with plump berries. She tells Cheesecake summer is her favorite time of year. She goes out with Cheesecake and puts some berries in her hat and ties some around his neck.
Blueberry thinks the berries are so lovely that she wants to share them with the other kids. But the only thing is she’s shy. Still, she decides to get over her shyness and invite the other kids to the blueberry patch. Besides they’re her friends. She goes to Baby Strawberry Shortcake’s house first and finds her in the garden with her kitten Custard. She starts to ask her but all of a sudden Custard sneezes. Every time she starts to say something, Custard sneezes again.
Custard starts to inspect the blueberries around Cheesecake’s neck and as he does, he sneezes again. Blueberry backs down and says she has to go and she hopes Custard feels better. Baby Strawberry peeks over the fence and sees the blueberries on the bushes. She turns to Baby Blueberry and Cheesecake and asks if they were trying to ask if they’d ask to help them pick the berries but they’re gone. Strawberry smiles because she knew Baby Blueberry well.
Baby Blueberry sees Baby Raspberry looking up at a tree and appears to be talking to it. She asks her if she’s talking to the tree. Then she sees Rhubarb on one of the branches and blushes. Raspberry says she’s fixing a watch Rhubarb found. Blueberry tells her she’s clever and tries to invite her to the blueberry patch but Rhubarb starts to chatter. She loses her nerve while trying to ask her and says maybe another time.
As Blueberry walks through the woods, she vows to change and invite the next person she sees. She spots footprints and sees Figboots hiding behind a tree (trying to catch a butterfly). She starts to tell him how ripe her blueberries are and how the bushes are loaded. But she slips and falls into a muddy footprint and gets mud all over herself. Embarrassed she walks home thinking why she can’t be more like Strawberry and Raspberry and why she has to be so shy.
She takes a bath and puts on a clean dress. Then she hears voices in the blueberry patch. Its all her friends and they have treats for her Raspberry has a jar of raspberry jam and sweet bread. Strawberry has her best strawberry shortcake. Blueberry wants to know how they knew. Strawberry says they saw that she was trying and they understood. She says that it’s good to be different and tells her please don’t change. So, she invites them back when the blueberries are picked and she’ll have pies, muffins, and other treats. Then she’s happy that she did finally ask them.
My Thoughts:
It just feels good when you have a friend that really knows you enough to know what your trying to say without you saying it because they’ve been around you so long they know who you are. I have a friend like that and there is nothing better in the whole wide world. I understood! Sometimes there things that I want to say that I don’t say to people and come out easier when I write them out and I’m thinking if I could just SAY THAT TO THEM! So in a way I’m a lot like Baby Blueberry and I can easily relate to this book.
Baby Blueberry Muffin wakes up knowing it’s a special day. She opens her window and gets a sweet smell. Her blueberries are ready to be picked. All the bushes are filled with plump berries. She tells Cheesecake summer is her favorite time of year. She goes out with Cheesecake and puts some berries in her hat and ties some around his neck.
Blueberry thinks the berries are so lovely that she wants to share them with the other kids. But the only thing is she’s shy. Still, she decides to get over her shyness and invite the other kids to the blueberry patch. Besides they’re her friends. She goes to Baby Strawberry Shortcake’s house first and finds her in the garden with her kitten Custard. She starts to ask her but all of a sudden Custard sneezes. Every time she starts to say something, Custard sneezes again.
Custard starts to inspect the blueberries around Cheesecake’s neck and as he does, he sneezes again. Blueberry backs down and says she has to go and she hopes Custard feels better. Baby Strawberry peeks over the fence and sees the blueberries on the bushes. She turns to Baby Blueberry and Cheesecake and asks if they were trying to ask if they’d ask to help them pick the berries but they’re gone. Strawberry smiles because she knew Baby Blueberry well.
Baby Blueberry sees Baby Raspberry looking up at a tree and appears to be talking to it. She asks her if she’s talking to the tree. Then she sees Rhubarb on one of the branches and blushes. Raspberry says she’s fixing a watch Rhubarb found. Blueberry tells her she’s clever and tries to invite her to the blueberry patch but Rhubarb starts to chatter. She loses her nerve while trying to ask her and says maybe another time.
As Blueberry walks through the woods, she vows to change and invite the next person she sees. She spots footprints and sees Figboots hiding behind a tree (trying to catch a butterfly). She starts to tell him how ripe her blueberries are and how the bushes are loaded. But she slips and falls into a muddy footprint and gets mud all over herself. Embarrassed she walks home thinking why she can’t be more like Strawberry and Raspberry and why she has to be so shy.
She takes a bath and puts on a clean dress. Then she hears voices in the blueberry patch. Its all her friends and they have treats for her Raspberry has a jar of raspberry jam and sweet bread. Strawberry has her best strawberry shortcake. Blueberry wants to know how they knew. Strawberry says they saw that she was trying and they understood. She says that it’s good to be different and tells her please don’t change. So, she invites them back when the blueberries are picked and she’ll have pies, muffins, and other treats. Then she’s happy that she did finally ask them.
My Thoughts:
It just feels good when you have a friend that really knows you enough to know what your trying to say without you saying it because they’ve been around you so long they know who you are. I have a friend like that and there is nothing better in the whole wide world. I understood! Sometimes there things that I want to say that I don’t say to people and come out easier when I write them out and I’m thinking if I could just SAY THAT TO THEM! So in a way I’m a lot like Baby Blueberry and I can easily relate to this book.
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December 30, 2024
Found this in a thrift store sometime ago, I was a big fan of Strawberry and all her pals going up. Had dolls, quilts, and LOVED the cartoons.
The book adorable, nostalgic, and healing to a lonely little girl I’m still sorting out at 30.
***I’d give it more than three but umm.. why didn’t we go back for Fig Boot? Maybe they too would have enjoyed some tea, treats and company. I understand she was shy and we’re overcoming that with sincere sentiment and our friends (who could have also invited Fig Boot)—anyways, super cute vintage children’s story.
The book adorable, nostalgic, and healing to a lonely little girl I’m still sorting out at 30.
***I’d give it more than three but umm.. why didn’t we go back for Fig Boot? Maybe they too would have enjoyed some tea, treats and company. I understand she was shy and we’re overcoming that with sincere sentiment and our friends (who could have also invited Fig Boot)—anyways, super cute vintage children’s story.
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