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Gr 1-4 In this follow-up to "How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World" (Knopf, 1994), a spunky young baker is in the mood for cherry pie. She has the ingredients this time, but she's missing the equipment (bowl, pan, rolling pin, etc.) needed to get the job done. Traveling back and forth across the United States according to instructions that are given recipe style (and can be followed o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Cooking from scratch is taken to a diverting extreme as "you" (pictured as a lass in blue and white with red ribbons) scour the country for raw materials to make the utensils needed to bake a Fourth of July treat. You snag a taxi to Pennsylvania to collect coal to manufacture steel for a pie pan. Louisiana yields cotton for potholders; Washington, "the only state named for a president, the only president rumored to have a set of wooden teeth," has wood for a rolling pin; for pl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Priceman's breezy text and freely painted gouache illustrations celebrate America's products and diversity. A girl criss-cross...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this spirited sequel to How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Marjorie Priceman turns her attention to the varied landscape of the United States. In New Hampshire, Priceman’s little baker rappels down a mountainside to retrieve granite (good for making pastry slabs); in Hawaii, she lounges on a beach before scooping up a pail of sand (which she’ll turn, near the book’s end, into a glass measuring cup). By drawing connec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More