Author: Margie Palatini
Illustrator: Howard Fine
Title: Piggie Pie!
Publisher: Clarion Books
Date: 1995
Reading Level: 5-8
Number of Pages: 29
Genre: Fiction Picture book
Summary of Plot: The book begins with a witch named Gritch she wakes up grumpy and hungry but what does she want to eat? After going through a list of possibilities she decides of Piggie Pie. She then goes to the kitchen to see if she has all of the ingredients for her piggie pie but then realizes that she is missing only one thing 8 plump piggies. So she stomps her foot and paces the floor and then wonders how she is going to get 8 plump piggies. She then goes to the phone book and looks up Old MacDonalds farm so she jumps on her broom stick and flies to Old MacDonalds farm where she is hoping to find her 8 plump piggies meanwhile the piggies all dress up like different animals so that they can kid from the evil witch when she lands she comes up to a duck (really a pig dressed up as a duck) and asks the ducks where the piggies are when the ducks reply that there are no piggies the witch threatens to curse the ducks but then walks away she then goes to the cow and does the same thing, she gets the same response and then moves on to the chicken then chicken does the same and then points her towards the farmer. The Farmer of course is really some pigs dressed up. after talking to the farmer she goes and sits for a while trying to figures up what she is to do next when a wolf comes up to her and tells her not to waist her time with the pigs. The witch then invites the wolf to dinner and they both leave back to the witch’s house. Never knowing what happened next.
Your Reaction to the book: This was one of my favorite books when I was little. We never owned it but would check it out all the time. I really did love it.
Potential Problems: The only problems that could occur would be that little kids won’t get the humor behind it. It relates back to the story of the three little pigs and it refers to the Old McDonald song.
Recommendations: Before reading this book make sure that the kids know the original three little pigs story and the Old McDonald song.
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