Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza

by Marjorie Eberts, Margaret Gisler, Stephen Hayes (Illustrator)

A fun and engaging way for young children to figure out concepts and solving problems on his or her own. Rookie Readers (Ages 5-7) have provided entertaining, high-quality introductions to reading for more than a generation. Each title features full-color, often hilarious illustrations and engaging stories that always involve a young child figuring out concepts or solving problems on his or her own. Eddy likes to eat round things, like pancakes and oranges, square things, like crackers, and triangular things like pizza and watermelon.

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1984

Reviews

[Partridge Public]

Eberts, Marjorie

[Edward Sojuwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a sweet kids book about a kid named Eddy, who loves to eat! (And no, it ain't me, but I am honored nonetheless, since I like eating as well, and my family used to make fun of my gastronomic achievements, lol, but that's another story.) Eddy eats foods in special shapes, which is the main focus of this book, teaching kids to appreciate shapes like circles, squares and triangles. Eddy scarfs down circular pancakes, square sandwiches and crackers, and triangular pieces of fruit pie and pizza....probably all at once (!!!) but hey, he's a kid! Let him have fun! After it's over, he checks the mirror and lo and behold, he has circle eyes, square nose and a triangle mouth since, well, we are what shapes we eat. Me, I'm kinda circular where my tummy is...but again, that's another story!
Four stars
Stay hungry for shapes!

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an okay book. The illustrations were alright and it's a nice book for children to learn about circles, squares, and triangles with examples of different kinds of food. I was disappointed that for pizza they chose the triangle to be the shape instead of a circle only because I was doing a lesson on circles and doing a pizza craft after. I have mixed feelings about the ending though. It was interesting and kind of cool how they took the face and put the shapes they talked about in the book, but it's also kind of creepy and I don't really feel like our nose is a triangular shape.

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

My children absolutely adore this book. Reading literature is so important to the development of a child's mind, and I cannot think of thing I would rather do then sit down to read to them in the evenings. Imagination and growth are so vital in those so young.

[Beyond the Pages with Eva K · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be a really good book for 4-6 year olds. Kids will like the colorful illustrations and the chance that they are given to identify the shapes on each page. Parents will like the simplicity of this book. It provided such a wonderful teaching opportunity.

Rating: 3.5/5
Recommend: Yes
Options: Read Aloud, Sight Word Review, Pre-Math Skill Building, Life/Health Awareness Resource

I secured a copy of this book from my local library.

[Elbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just a pretty normal early reader book until it gets to those last two pages... A twisted and weird enough ending to make it rise from a 2 or 3 star book to a 5 star!

The cataloging is missing one of the authors, Marjorie Eberts, and I didn't see the illustrator, Stephen Hayes, listed. Robert Hillerich is just listed on the title page as "Prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich, Ph.D."