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Summary: Who wants Piggie Pie?
Review: Apple pie, pumpkin pie, piggie pie? Just what is piggie pie? Margie Palatini writes about Gritch the witch and she wants piggie pie. She has all the ingredients, but she has no pigs. The rhyme and rhythm of words makes it a joy to read. Don't forget the song characters from Farmer in the Dell and Old McDonald. This book is great for students of all ages and adults as well. I use this book in my Kindergarten classroom as a great read aloud. The students like the illustrations as well. Read this book to find out if the pigs are made into piggie pie or if they escape. When you are done read "Zoom Broom" and "The Web Files" by Margie Palatini. Is Gritch still hungry for piggie pie?
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Summary: Cute, cute, and cute!!
Review: "Piggie Pie in Review" The picture book Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini is about how a hungry witch tries to find food. The pigs who are on the farm trick the witch by dressing up as different farm animals to avoid being eaten. In the story, Palatini keeps the reader interested by using dramatic irony and by using other fairy tales and nursery rhymes. For example, the reader knows what the pigs are doing, but the witch does not know that the pigs are disguising themselves as other farm animals. One of the fairy tales that she uses is "The 3 Little Pigs." The wolf comes at the end of the story and says to the witch not to mess with the pigs because they tricked him also. The author also uses "Old McDonald" in the story: when the animals talk to the witch, "The cow moo-mooed here. It moo-mooed there. Here it mooed. There it mooed. Everywhere it mooed." The author uses intertextuality, irony, and also bright illustrations to set the mood and keep the reader turning the pages.
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Summary: If you're hungry for a good book, read this!
Review: Everyone knows what trials the Big Bad Wolf went through with the three little porkers! In this fractured tale, Piggie Pie, the pigs are pursued by a new villian, the Big Bad Witch. To satisfy her hunger, Gritch the Witch plans a trip to Old McDonald's farm to complete her ingredients for Piggie Pie- 8 "plump, juicy, pink piggies". Dressing up as different farm animals, the pigs once again outsmart their nemesis. Fine's illustrations alone were descriptive enough to allow readers to understand the plot as well as the outcome of the book, which makes it more enjoyable for all ages!
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Summary: A great read. You & your kids will laugh 'till it hurts.
Review: Extraordinarily clever, imaginative, and entertaining, this book will have the whole family in stitches. Our 7 & 9 year old can't get enough of it. The cartoon artwork is very nicely rendered, and the text is hilarious, as when the witch tells the farmer to "fork over the pork!" Both art and text are reminiscent of the old "Mad" magazine style... hip, funny, & clever enough to revisit time and again without the humor growing tired. A small treasure, a great gift.
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Summary: Best Slice of Pie I Ever Had
Review: Gritch the Witch is hungry for something different, something out of the ordinary. It has to be Piggie Pie and if that isn't enough for you wait till your singing "Old Mac Donald had a Farm." This book is hilarious--a stubborn witch and a bunch of determined pigs keep you laughing. The book is for all ages to enjoy. Read it to your young ones and watch them laugh. In Piggie Pie you learn how teamwork can accomplish anything and if you are greedy you most certainly won't get what you want. I loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel. Buy this book and you will laugh so hard you will have to read it again and again.
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Summary: Doesn't get any better
Review: I have three grandchildren ranging from ages 2 - 9. I bought this book a couple of years ago and have read it many times over. The children cannot get enough of it. (Of course it helps to use imaginative voices for each character - something grandmothers would certainly do). I give it 5 stars plus. Jeanne Provosty Buffat
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Summary: A good one for grownups, too
Review: I like reading this story to my boys. We have fun with it, as should always be the case with reading. My husband, in particular, seems to enjoy making an awful screech when reading the line "Piggie Pie." It took a while to notice some of the nods and homages to other stories. It's fun to figure those out, too. For instance, the skywriting is a direct reference to what the wicked witch writes in the movie classic "Wizard of Oz." In that instance, it's "Surrender Dorothy." In the book, it's "Surrender Piggies." Pretty cute reference.
The rhyme will readily jump at you as being remembered from the Old MacDonald rhyme. The illustrations are amazing: piggies with costumes on are too hilarious. The dress-up is just bad enough you can't help but wonder about the daft old witch who doesn't even notice the pink snout on that duck.
It's a fun book. It's probably better to wait till paper pages can be turned safely by baby hands, maybe 1.5 years. But remember, a torn page is a small price to pay for literacy (Good quote, eh? Got that one from A Well Trained Mind).
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Summary: A great read-aloud, twists on a well-known song,poem,movie.
Review: Piggie Pie is at its best when read aloud with great flourish. 2nd and 3rd graders love it, and can easily identify the references to "Old MacDonald", "Wizard of Oz", "The 3 Little Pigs", and "Over the River and Through the Woods". I used it for Nevada Reading Week, complete with the goggles and the green fingernails. I highly recommend this book; practice it first for the most effective reading to a class!
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Summary: Piggie pie book review
Review: The story Piggy Pie is a fun-filled book that has an interesting way of using other folktales, like: "Little Red Riding Hood" and " Hansel and Gretel". The book also uses sentence fragments from other various folktales like:" Three Little Pigs and Old Mc Donald". They show these folktales the most because if readers think back to the stories, the pictures make them stand out. Example, when the witch is mixing her potion or her stew, The witch has all the ingredients but one, eight plump pigs. In Hansel and Gretel the witch doesn't have two plump kids. Hansel and Gretle mistakenly come her way and she plumps them up. Readers got to understand and use your imagination a little bit, because you have to relate the other stories to this book. Piggie Pie which uses "Little Red Riding Hood". The last picture in the book shows why I think this. In "Little Red Riding Hood", the wolf happened to show up and talk to her in the street on the way to her grandmother's house. The wolf followed her there, ate her grandmother, and waited for "Little Red Riding". Little Red Riding Hood on her to get there. In Piggie Pie the wolf uses the idea that he was chasing three little pigs; he also had the same grin the wolf had in Little Red Riding Hood. He told the witch that he has been chasing three little pigs, but in his mind he was thinking about eating her just like she was thinking of him. This book intentionally took the ideas from the other books. The book has a lot of the same text and same picture plots that are in the others.
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Summary: Great Fun!
Review: This book is an absolute delight to read to my 4 and 7 year old! They both love to hear it and to look at the wonderfully detailed pictures. Even after reading it to them many times (and listening to my 7 yr old read it to her little brother), they still find new things to giggle about. We've enjoyed the humor and pictures so much that I'm buying a few for Christmas gifts.
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