Pie (Scholastic Gold)

Everything about this book revolves around the best pie maker in the world.She dies in the first paragraph, leaving all her recipes to her cat, Lardo.The cat is left to her niece and it is her adventures and discoveries that make this book such a great read.Every chapter is prefaced with a pie recipe and everyone has a favourite pie.A great book, a rivetting read for my nine year old daughter and a superb ending to boot.The only downside is that, being an American publication, the recipes are in need of a little translation. If you go to the trouble, some are truly delicious, just like this book.

Really weird book that reads backwards, so rather than scrolling down/forwards, you have to do the opposite.Duh! to me, but I didn't clock what the Sneak Peek bit meant, and after reading 2 chapters intersperced with pie recipes, I ended up annoyed at the waste of my time. I thought that given the picture of the cat on the cover, there might be some mention of the cat, but no, it's about a family disagreement, and a lady who opens a pie shop as a young girl, and gives them all away for free until the day she dies...hmmm