Piggie Pie!-Margie Palatini September 2, 2007
(Warning: When reading this book to children beware of an abundance of alliterative “p” words. Hand out tissues.) Gritch awakes one morning with a tremendous craving for Piggie Pie! Lacking the most important ingredients-8 plump piggies-she jumps on her broom and flies off to Old MacDonald’s to rectify the situation. Noticing her arrival overhead at the farm, the piggies read the writing on the wall, er, in the sky and decide subterfuge to be the best protection against Gritch’s hungry needs. Disguised as various farm animals, the piggies undergo some rather intense witchy interrogations. Even a conspicuouly lumpy looking “Old MacDonald” is no help. “No piggies.” (Thankfully, Gritch isn’t the most observant witch in the covey.) “Now what was she going to eat?” Enter a huffing and puffing wolf. “Wolf’s the name.” Both the wolf and the witch leave the farm with, respectively, visions of a Gritch hamburger and a Wolf sandwich dancing in their heads. And in the heads of the piggies? …a neener neener here. And a neener neener there. Here a neener…
Piggie Pie!
Written by Margie Palatini
Illustrated by Howard Fine
Accelerated Reader RL 2.5
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