How To Make An Apple Pie And See The World (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

by Marjorie Priceman

Overview

Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. Includes recipe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780613029414
Publisher:	Perfection Learning Corporation
Publication date:	04/04/2019
Series:	Dragonfly Books
Edition description:	THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

Singling out the "offbeat nostalgia" of the "energetic" watercolors in this tale of a round-the-world grocery trip, PW called Priceman "a master of whimsy." Ages 4-8. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Gr 1-3-In this whimsical, geographical shopping journey, a young baker thinks of how to proceed if the market is closed. She directs readers, via various modes of transportation, to gather seminola wheat in Italy, a chicken (for its egg) in France, bark from the kurundu (cinnamon) tree in Sri Lanka, a cow (for butter) in England, salt water and sugar cane in Jamaica, and apples in Vermont. Processing the worldly ingredients is quickly handled, a pie is baked, and friends are invited to share. A look around the table reveals children from all of the countries in which the foods have been found. A recipe for apple pie appears on the last page. The brightly colored pictures are fanciful, revealing cheerful, busy people working in towns, fields, and forests of the various countries. The purposeful girl in a green pinafore collects her ingredients with enthusiasm and good cheer. A lighthearted, pleasurable selection.-Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME

School Library Journal

From the world map on the endpapers to the logical nonsense of the text to the appended recipe for apple pie, this has that quality elusive to so many picture books--it's just right. Best known for illustrating "Rachel Fister's Blister" (1990), Priceman here provides a simple, satisfying story line as well as full-color artwork that's naive in style and vivacious in spirit. Resembling a slightly older version of Madeline, the book's engaging narrator instructs readers in making apple pie. It's "easy", if the market's open. If not (and you'll be glad it isn't), you're in for a trip around the world to collect the ingredients: "superb semolina" wheat from Italy, eggs from France, cinnamon from Sri Lanka, milk from England, salt from seawater, sugar from Jamaica, and apples from Vermont. Then an energetic two-page spread shows our heroine putting it all together and coming up with a pie, but that's not the end; that would be too simple. Priceman's ending, the sort that storytellers hope for, promises to leave children laughing. Libraries in apple-growing regions should consider purchasing multiple copies since every preschool and primary-grade teacher in town will want a copy to read aloud before the annual class trip to the orchard.

Carolyn Phelan