How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U. S. A.

by Marjorie Priceman, Marjorie Priceman (Illustrator)

Overview

IN THIS EXUBERANT companion story to How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, our young baker sets her sights on a cherry pie. She heads off on a round-the-U.S.A. journey to find all the materials she needs to stock her kitchen: New Mexico for clay (mixing bowl), Washington for wood (rolling pin), Hawaii for sand (sand? to make the glass for her measuring cup, of course). In joyful art filled with small vignettes and sly humor, two-time Caldecott Honor winner Marjorie Priceman takes us on a cross country journey by riverboat, taxi, bus, train, plane—all in search of the natural resources of our country. Includes a brightly painted endpaper map of the U.S.A.—and a recipe for cherry pie, of course!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307983404
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/27/2012
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Lexile:	AD680L (what's this?)
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

In addition to the bestselling How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, MARJORIE PRICEMAN is the acclaimed author and illustrator of dozens of books for children, including Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride, and Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin, written by Lloyd Moss, both Caldecott Honor Books. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

The visuals take the cake, or rather the pie, in this folksy jaunt across the country. As a follow-up to the bestselling How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (1994), Priceman sticks with a more local focus. Here, readers take a nonsensical and roundabout journey in search of items to make a cherry pie. Hail a taxi in New York and go to "the corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio" for coal to make a pie pan, then to a cotton farm in Louisiana to make potholders, to New Mexico for clay to make a mixing bowl and so forth. Strangely, the ingredients for the actual pie are not on the shopping list, just the raw materials to make the cooking equipment. Though informational, the journey is filled with so many random distractions young readers may have a hard time sticking with it. The rustic, lush illustrations, however, are as delicious as a cherry pie right from the oven, and for readers who really want to make one, there's a simple recipe included. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews