Alana's Recipe for Kindness

Alana shows what she’s learned about kindness in this eighth book in the Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch chapter book series, the little sister series to the bestselling Cupcake Diaries. Includes black and white illustrations throughout!

When a new after school program starts taking up all of Alana’s cupcake baking time, her Mini Cupcake Club friends feel neglected and worry she’s repeating old mistakes. Alana doesn’t want her friends to feel that way, but she knows she has learned from the past. Now it’s time for her to teach her friends to learn from their pasts and remind the Mini Cupcake Club that the most important ingredient in any recipe is kindness.

From cupcakes to ice cream and donuts! When she’s not daydreaming about yummy snacks, Coco Simon edits children’s books and has written close to one hundred books for children, tweens, and young adults, which is a lot less than the number of cupcakes, ice cream cones, and donuts she’s eaten. She is the author of the Cupcake Diaries, the Sprinkle Sundays, and the Donut Dreams series. Her newest series is Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch. 

Manuela López is an artist, introvert, and tea drinker. She works as an illustrator of children’s books and freelance projects.