The story begins with a witch named Gritch who wants to make “piggie pie.” This unique recipe calls for “one eye of a fly, two shakes of a rattlesnake’s rattle, three belly hairs of a possum, and eight plump piggies.” She realizes she needs pigs as a result, she decides to take a trip to the farm. In my opinion, I think “Piggie Pie” is a superb book for children to read. I am also ordering the 3rd book in the series - Broom Mates - hoping it will be just as delightful. I am ordering some used copies, because my personal library will never be complete with out them. She said - ".and you have to read it with the different voices!" As I was reading it, I suddenly heard my then 21 year old son running down the stairs, excited - jumped on the couch next us, and listened intently, as I read - with a smile on his face.
Suddenly she ran upstairs to her old room, and ran back down with Piggie Pie. I was caught off guard - but after reading a few stories from Hans Christian Anderson, she didn't seem satisfied. One day, my then 18 year old daughter, asked me to read to her. This was also my two kids' favorite books to have read allowed, even as young adults. Over the years, Piggie Pie lost a page or two, and Zoom Broom just disappeared, however, I pretty much had memorized Piggie Pie.
I purchased this and the sequel, Zoom Broom, many years ago - late 90's. (Sept.This is one of my all time favorite children's books. Lots of fun-and certain to be the object of repeat-reading demands. But instead of the expected heart-to-heart, Louise takes a chomp out of Grandmama too. The story looks like it's headed down an overly familiar lane when Grandmama Sadie positions herself as the only gator who truly understands Louise (“This is only a phase my little joy is going through,” she avers, chucking Louise under her scaly chin). Reinhart (the Encyclopedia Prehistorica pop-ups) gleefully records the mayhem with nicely nutty watercolor-and-ink cartoons that take full advantage of Louise's propensity to go for the gluteus maximus. She was really, really, truly quite sorry”).
) goes on to chronicle how Louise's biting manages to drive everyone around her to the brink, including an entire beach full of day trippers (“Louise was sorry.
Everywhere.” (A bite-size “hole” on the jacket suggests that it, too, has succumbed to Louise's insatiable maw.) In wryly well-bred cadences that are a hoot to read aloud, Palatini ( Piggie Pie Louise is a pigtailed, pint-size alligator with “new gleaming-white baby choppers”-which, unfortunately, give her a “tendency to.
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