Ideas please...librarian retirement!

You could make several books. Bake some 2" deep cakes in your square pan.  Slice in half and sandwich together with buttercream icing. Chill them, cut into various book sized pieces,  and ice three edges with buttercream marked with lines from a decorating comb.  

Get some fondant in different colours.  Roll each cover in one piece and wrap around with 1/4" overhang. 

Get a large cake board, extra heavy weight (or glue together two heavy cardboards).

To put this together, use some chocolate icing to write the "names" of books making the titles  "patient", "wise", "helpful", etc   Spread these across the large cake board as if on a desk.  Stack the books with foil covered cardboard under each one. 

So now you can be as ambitious as you like. Make some kid figures out of fondant and hide them between the books.  Or some flowers. 

The first thing I thought of was books but make the titles fun and funny, like

What Not To Read

Speak Up, No Whispering

The Great Outdoors

Arranging Your Home By The Dewey Decimal System

If you think he or she may have a sense of humor, it will add a lot to the presentation!

Good luck!

Theresa

I also thought about a pile of books on a desk with her sitting around the desk with some funny glasses on with her hands on her cheek looking up as if she's day dreaming about her retirement with a little smirk on her face.  Okay, I do get a little crazy with my ideas :-)

Some people do clock cakes for people who retire. Here is a copy of one.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=retirement+clock++cakes&ei=UTF-8&fr=chrf-tyc8

The books that the others suggested also sound good since she was a librarian.

Hope your kids get well soon.

Making a cake "book"--if the fondant overhang is as small as it would be on a real book, then don't worry.  I should have said that each book needs to sit on a piece of cardboard the same size, that also helps the little bit of overhang to behave well.  Wrap these pieces of cardboard twice with foil so that all surfaces are covered.

If you are pressed for time, then make the sheet cake with rosettes on the sides.  You can make just a few smaller books for the top (total of one layer of square cake).  Lay them at an angle and do not worry about stacking.  With small books, you don't need to worry about supports either. Maybe model a pair of fondant legs/feet  that would stick out from under one of them...labelled "peace and quiet" or something like that. 

Bottom, one side, and top to make it really look like a book.  Then you can indent the spine with lines as if it was hand bound. 

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