Age: Kindergarten-3rd grade

The King lion invites ant to his annual start of the spring dinner where ant meets several other rather rude animals. After dinner, the lion brings a large cake to be shared amongst the guests. Elephant has first dibs and thinks to himself, "I could eat this in one bite but that might seem greedy." So he cuts the cake in half and passes the rest to the next guest. On and on the cake goes, getting cut in half again and again until the tiny morsel reaches the ant. Unable to cut it in half any more, the other animals scoff at her for her greediness. In reparations, she plans to bake a cake for the lion tomorrow. Well, that's not fair to the other animals! Each one wanting to out-do the next multiples the previous animal's offering by two, with elephant declaring to bring 256 peanut-butter pound cakes. Only one animal's promise pans out in the end.

I love the inside cover showing a very clear picture of the cake divided in half each time, accompanied with fractions.