She even began to recognize the mannerisms of the characters, and was able to guess who was speaking from the words they used - an important skill when spying with Alice and Charlie. She loves mysteries, and she enjoyed trying to solve the mystery concerning Lardo the cat along with Alice and her friend Charlie. Her mother’s selfishness and apparent distaste for Alice left me with a very uncomfortable feeling.Īpart from these points, my daughter loved this book. Additionally, Alice’s relationship with her mother seemed slightly disturbing to me as I read the dialogues between mother and daughter with my own little girl before bed. The beginning of this book is slow-moving, and a lot of time is spent reliving Aunt Polly’s death - a truthful reaction to death, though slightly morbid for an 8-year-old reading about the mystery of a pie crust recipe. Will the very thing that made Aunt Polly so loved - her wonderful pies, and the love that went in them - be what tears the town apart in the end? Or can Alice solve the mystery of Aunt Polly’s will in time to bring peace back to the town of Ipswitch? And now that Aunt Polly has left her top-secret - and very famous - pie recipe to a cat, the entire town is in an uproar.

Aunt Polly understood Alice better than anyone else - especially better than her mother, who never seems to understand anything at all. You'll enjoy every last bite.“PIE,” by Sarah Weeks, Scholastic Press, October 1, 2011, $16.99 (ages 8 and up)Īlice’s beloved Aunt Polly has passed away unexpectedly, changing everything in Alice’s world. With Pie, acclaimed author Sarah Weeks has baked up a sweet and satisfying delight, as inviting as warm pie on a cold day. And the pleasure of donig something for the right reason. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo. When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. IT, a story about family, friendship, and.pie

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