How to Make a Cherry Pie...
IN THIS EXUBERANT companion story to How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, our
young baker sets her sights on a cherry pie. She heads off on a
round-the-U.S.A. journey to find all the materials she needs to stock
her kitchen: New Mexico for clay (mixing bowl), Washington for wood
(rolling pin), Hawaii for sand (sand? to make the glass for her
measuring cup, of course). In joyful art filled with small vignettes
and sly humor, two-time Caldecott Honor winner Marjorie Priceman takes
us on a cross country journey by riverboat, taxi, bus, train, plane—all
in search of the natural resources of our country. Includes a brightly
painted endpaper map of the U.S.A.—and a recipe for cherry pie, of
course!
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Marjorie Priceman
RISD BFA '81 [Illustration]
Author and artist Marjorie Priceman is an illustrator who, since beginning her career in the late 1980s, has found herself in great demand due to her humorous and energetic artwork. Although she has created art for the texts of a variety of noted writers, including Jack Prelutsky, Amy MacDonald, and Nancy Van Laan, Priceman has found that illustrating someone else's story is not nearly as fun as illustrating her own. After taking an advanced writing course, she has gone on to pen the original picture books My Nine Lives: by Clio, Emeline at the Circus, and Princess Picky, earning an extra dollop of enthusiastic praise from critics. Priceman's books "are rollicking and riotous," commented a Publishers Weekly reviewer, adding that "it often seems as though the borders of the pages are unable to contain the energy of her artwork and creations." Praising the illustrator in a profile for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books online, Deborah Stevenson wrote: "There's a delicious artistic gaiety" to the illustrator's work that recalls "earlier styles; the result is not retro effect, but a feeling that something that's been missing has been restored."
Author and artist Marjorie Priceman is an illustrator who, since beginning her career in the late 1980s, has found herself in great demand due to her humorous and energetic artwork. Although she has created art for the texts of a variety of noted writers, including Jack Prelutsky, Amy MacDonald, and Nancy Van Laan, Priceman has found that illustrating someone else's story is not nearly as fun as illustrating her own. After taking an advanced writing course, she has gone on to pen the original picture books My Nine Lives: by Clio, Emeline at the Circus, and Princess Picky, earning an extra dollop of enthusiastic praise from critics. Priceman's books "are rollicking and riotous," commented a Publishers Weekly reviewer, adding that "it often seems as though the borders of the pages are unable to contain the energy of her artwork and creations." Praising the illustrator in a profile for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books online, Deborah Stevenson wrote: "There's a delicious artistic gaiety" to the illustrator's work that recalls "earlier styles; the result is not retro effect, but a feeling that something that's been missing has been restored."