Pickle-Chiffon Pie

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Summary: The Best
Review: As a child, I loved the pictures. I can still see the giant caterpillar wearing a different shoe on each foot, the mice painting pictures, the lion on roller skates juggling cans of soup, the giant, the ogre... and the great, big tear dripping down the snozzle's nose. As an adult, I still find myself admiring kindness and consideration more than looks or education. It's a beautiful story and fun for kids. Lots of Bradfield's other books are in print; why not this one?!

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Summary: Still with me after so many years
Review: I used to read this book over and over as a kid. I still have it and hope my children will love it as I much as I still do. A sweet story, with beautiful illustrations. If you find yourself a copy, never let it go.

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Summary: Still with me after so many years
Review: I used to read this book over and over as a kid. I still have it and hope my children will love it as I much as I still do. A sweet story, with beautiful illustrations. If you find yourself a copy, never let it go.

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Summary: best kids book in the universe
Review: im only 23 so i have no clue how this book came into my posession but as a child my mother read this to me almost every other night. It just completely drew me in with the great artwork and sweet and creative story. The pie looked so tasty!! I had no clue this book would be worth so much

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Summary: The Perfect Book
Review: My brother was given this book almost 35 years ago. I shamelessly filched it. Since then I have surely read tens of thousands of books. But I can say with utmost confidence that this book is the best, the most perfect, the MOST WONDERFUL book ever written. I have read it to my own children and to their school classes in their turn. It withstands the ongoing test of time and variety of children. It lives in tape-bound glory in an honored spot on the bookshelf. At night you can see a faint halo.

So what makes this the perfect book? Firstly, it flawlessly follows the immutable Fairy Tale Law of Three giving it that well-grounded solidity found in generations of three aspirants/sisters/brothers/ogres/bears/billy goats gruff, three encounters, three days, three chances, etc. Secondly, it is a rich and engaging story without being wordy or trendy. But thirdly, there's the sense of rightness, of contentment at the state of a well-run world, the desire to go whisking off to that happy kingdom as the last page is regretfully turned. Also, there's pie.

(After wondering for years what a Pickle Chiffon Pie actually tastes like and being prodded by questions from my own children, I conducted extensive research. I found that Pickle Chiffon Pie tastes mysteriously JUST LIKE a green-tinted lemon meringue pie. My children, their classmates, and I were pleased.)


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Summary: Back in print, winter 2004!
Review: Purple House Press is pleased to announce that Pickle-Chiffon Pie will be back in print in hardcover this winter! Same wonderful pictures and text as the 1960s version.

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Summary: Colorful, imaginative title back in print December 2004!
Review: Purple House Press is proud to have released Pickle-Chiffon Pie in December 2004! Same wonderful pictures and text as the 1960s version. Look for The Flying Hockey Stick, also by Jolly Roger, in the summer of 2005.

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Summary: an important lesson for all
Review: This book is not easy to come by but I recently found a copy and recieved it today. I haven't seen this book since I was a child and it was a wonderful, nostalgic experience to read it again as an adult. If you can find one (and there are several used copies for sale on Amazon.com) get one. It was worth every penny. I can't wait to read it it my children like my mom read it to me.

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Summary: Best Children's book for Parents and their Kidlets
Review: This book is so much fun for children and adults, it is a book that you don't mind reading over and over. I still have memories of my mom reading this book to me as a child and laughing, and having the best time. If you get this book take good care of it, because you will want to share it with your children's children's children...

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Summary: This man changed my life.
Review: This man changed my life. He can tell a child how to be ok with no need of victims, evil or sadness. BEAUTIFUL. He was a hUGE and beautifl part my childhood.