How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the USA

TITLE: How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the U. S. A.
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Marjorie Priceman
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf
COPYRIGHT: 2008

The reader gets to take an adventure across the U. S. A. in this book to gather the materials to make the utensils (pie pan, pot holders, rolling pin, measuring cup, plastic, and others)needed for making cherry pie since the cook shop is closed. A cherry pie recipe is also included in the book. This is by the author of the popular book How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. Primary and elementary aged children will enjoy this book. It would be excellent for the classroom library.

My son and I enjoyed this book.

Wild Boars Cook

TITLE: Wild Boars Cook
AUTHOR: Meg Rosoff
ILLUSTRATOR: Sophie Blackall
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company
COPYRIGHT: 2008

These four stinky boars, Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris, are hungry. Doris finds a recipe for the four of them to fix. This silly book is appropriate for primary aged children. I also believe it could be used in the classroom for a lesson on action verbs because many vivid verbs are used throughout the story.

My son and I enjoyed this book. It was appealing to me because the animal characters were unusual compared to your normal children's picture book characters.