Picture Book #21 The Apple Pie that Papa Baked

Author: Lauren Thompson

Title: The Apple Pie that Papa Baked

Illustrator: Johnathan Bean



Readability: 5.2

Genre: Picture Book


Subgenre: Informational; Realistic

Theme: Everything in the world works together to create something

Primary and Secondary Characters:

Award(s) date of publication: 2007

Publishing Company: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Reader

ISBN number: 978-1-4169

Summary:

The Apple Pie that Papa Baked is a story about an apple that a little girl and her Papa, the little girl was not given a name but the illustrator brought her alive throughout the pictures in the book.  The book is all about in apple pie. The author describes the pie from the apples, to the clouds, the sun, the ground, the rain and the water, and the world as an whole. Many of the pictures throughout the book speaks unwritten words to the reader. There is a picture of the girl looking out the window and you can see her Papa walking up the hill to the apple tree, yet the author does not write it on the paper. This book has excellent detail from the beginning to the end.

Use in the classroom:

This book would be great to show students how everything outside the classroom in the environment has a cycle to keep our body nourished. Students could write about what family recipes are handed down in their family around Thanksgiving time. Also, Lauren Thompson does a wonderful job describing these apples and trees and other items that help make the apple pie throughout the book. Allowing this book to be a great book to show detail in students writing.