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How to Bake an American Pie
by
Karma Wilson (Goodreads Author),
Raúl Colón
How do you bake an American pie?
Preheat the world until fiery hot with a hunger and thirst to be free. Now find a giant melting pot on the shores of a great shining sea.
From the bestselling author of Bear Snores On comes a remarkable recipe for America.
Including a dash of purple mountain majesties, cupfuls of courage, and a pinch of liberty, this beautifully illustrated c...more
Preheat the world until fiery hot with a hunger and thirst to be free. Now find a giant melting pot on the shores of a great shining sea.
From the bestselling author of Bear Snores On comes a remarkable recipe for America.
Including a dash of purple mountain majesties, cupfuls of courage, and a pinch of liberty, this beautifully illustrated c...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
May 22nd 2007
by Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Mar 05, 2011
Candice
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Most people who want a nice 4th of July book to read to children.
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A cute little patriotic book. I probably should have saved this to read on July 4. It uses some phrases from America the Beautiful to show how a dog and a cat bake an American pie. "Now find a giant melting pot on the shores of a great shining sea" and "Now roll out a top of spacious skies to cover this county of ours." The illustrations are so imaginative. Some cover the entire two-page spread without any words at all. As I read I thought that illustrator Raul Colon must have had so much fun cr...more
37 months - O has asked me to read this a few times since bringing it home from the library. I think she enjoys the illustrations and she likes the rhyme. I don't think kids will understand the meaning of the text though. She has caught a couple of things... purple mountain majesty she knows is the Rocky Mountains we can see west of Denver, she commented on 50 stars being "ALOT" tonight and I explained the meaning. She recognized the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore (as we were there last we...more
I love Wilson's Bear books but this one didn't quite touch me as much as I thought it could have. It felt a teensy bit clichéd to me and the illustrations just didn't match the text enough for my taste. It was all a bit abstract and I'm not sure how much kids would get from it. That said, it did have some lovely lines and I appreciate the sentiment.
Both the illustrations and the text contain details, references, and vocabulary suitable for curricular discussions at upper ages. The tightly metered and rhymed text has a lilting pace. The humorous images of the dog and cat throughout and splashes of familiar words and elements make it an effective read aloud for young children, too.
Nice metaphor of using a pie to describe America. In the book, the author uses characteristics that typically Americans use to define America. From courage to national symbols, this book does a good job at making the reader think about how a pie and America are alike.
PB 12-
A great book that can teach American spirit. This would be perfect to read around Labor Day or Memorial Day. I love the strong descriptive words the text uses and is great for introducing new vocabulary to kids. The rhyming is also great. Overall good book.
A great book that can teach American spirit. This would be perfect to read around Labor Day or Memorial Day. I love the strong descriptive words the text uses and is great for introducing new vocabulary to kids. The rhyming is also great. Overall good book.
This is a fun little story to read on Independence Day. It is full of pithy platitudes, but is sweet and has a nice rhythmic flow and rhyming text. The illustrations are fun too. Probably one of those books that adults can appreciate more than the children do.
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Fun Independence Day book, incorporating the lines from the song "America the Beautiful" into the text. Good conversation starter for a 7 year old or older. My daughter and I enjoyed this book.
Your rating of this book will depend on whether these familiar American phrases make you feel warm and full of promise, or cranky about promises inconsistently fulfilled.
This wonderfully crafter poem includes pieces of our American heritage in recipe form. A fun read for primary aged students that incorporates many of our nation's best qualities.
A great book for the Fourth of July. I love how familiar patriotic phrases are woven into the verse. The pumpkin pie framework makes it feel complete. Nicely done.
This is a creative display of the qualities and landforms that make The United States of America unique.
Now, I'm not sure that I want to eat a slice of that pie...
Now, I'm not sure that I want to eat a slice of that pie...
Such a cute little patriotic book for kids. I may have to buy this one!
the story of America as an ideal, beautifully told.
Good read aloud for children to celebrate July 4th.
This book was really good. The rhyme scheme was not too obvious. The pictures were very good. And the symbolism, though maybe a bit too high for the younger audience, is still wonderful for all who read it. As I am proud to be an American and am loyal to my blessed native land, I liked this book and all it represented to me.
It was a nice book, but I wouldn’t call it the best of the year. It would be great for a July 4th story time. I see adults liking it more than kids.
This was cute and very imaginative. The kids loved the illustrations! We are reading alot about patriotic themes and this went along great!
Makes me want to break out into "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
Fun read with a Christian element.
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Karma Wilson grew up an only child of a single mother in the wilds of North Idaho. Way back then (just past the stone age and somewhat before the era of computers) there was no cable TV and if there had been Karma could not have recieved it. TV reception was limited to 3 channels, of which one came in with some clarity. Karma did the only sensible thing a lonely little girl could do…she read or pl...more
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