The Story of Cherry the Pig

by Utako Yamada

Book Overview

Cherry the pig is happy and content, baking - and eating - desserts every afternoon. (She is, after all, a pig.) Then one day, she hears a family of mice talking about her "incredible" apple cake. Her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933605251
• ISBN13: 9781933605258
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Kids Book With a Good Lesson

This is a wonderful book which teaches kids an important lesson. That not everyone's perceptions of things are the same. The book teaches understanding, and keeping an open mind to how other think. In fact... the book teaches this difficult concept in the most simplistic of terms that even a kid can understand it. In some cases an adult may need to talk to the kids about the message before they get it but this book allows you to have the dialog. Such a wonderful message for kids too. Cherry the pig is sad when she hears the mice think her food is incredibly awful. Until she learns that the mice like a certain kind of hard cheesy biscuit. So of course her delicious pie wouldn't appeal to them.

Cherry makes an apple cake

Utako Yamada's retro style makes this story originally published in Japan in 2002 seem much older. All the colors are orange and yellow and green and brown. They remind me of stories from the 1950s. Cherry loves to make and eat desserts. One day she makes an incredible apple cake and decides to enter it in a contest. It's a simple tale that makes one wish the recipe was included. When this book was read to my almost four year old nephew, at the end he pleaded, "read it again". Karen Woodworth-Roman, Librarian, Editor East Asian Children's Books.