Sweet Dream Pie

About an enormous pie! What's not to love? Students will be very engaged in the book and will finish the book feeling as if they just ate a piece of pie too. Very well written.

This is a marvelous, detailed fantasy.

All day, Ma and Pa Brindle make an enormous "Sweet Dream Pie". The pie is clearly magical - every move the Brindles make to bake this pie is echoed on the street. When they roll out the dough, everybody falls off their bed onto the floor. When the oven is on, the street is hot. When they blow on the pie to cool it off, a breeze picks up in the neighborhood.

All the neighbors (except the little allergic girl) are invited to have a single slice of pie - but they eat too much, all of them, and promptly fall asleep, causing wild dreams to go up and down the neighborhood in a totally non-frightening way. The dreams are eventually swept away, and everybody gets a good night's sleep.

The story and the show more illustrations are wonderfully detailed, as I said. The only thing that ever prevents me from reading this book is that it's a long one - sometimes, you really don't have time for it and have to use a shorter book instead. show less

I was hungry just from reading this book. I like the way the author describes the ingredents, you can almost picture them in your head. The illustrations are fabulous. The dreams that come alive after eating the Sweet dream pie are great. A wonderful adventure book to share with a class.

This is a very imaginative story about an older couple who want to make sweet dream pie for their neighborhood. As they prepare the sweet, delicious pie, all the neighbors become hungry and long to have a piece. The lady who baked the pie told everyone to only have one piece, but everyone eats much more than that. As everyone goes to sleep that night, their dreams come to life on the streets of the neighborhood and it is the pie baker's job to sweep them all away. This imaginative story should not be read to very young children because it could possibly scare them. It would be good for older elementary grades, however, as a fun and carefree book. Many activities for this book, as well as many of Audrey Wood's other books can be found at show more www.audreywood.com. show less

This book starts out with the Ma and Pa Brindle who can not seem to fall asleep. So they decide to make sweet dream pie which has all types of candy and food in it. Later their neighbors come over to enjoy their pie and they all begin to start having crazy and wild dreams. This book is all about fantasy and the imagination, it could be used to start out a lesson that will get students brainstorming about what types of crazy dreams they have had before.

The events in this book are not what I expected them to be. I thought everyone would get so full off of the enormous pie that they would fall asleep. This did not happen, in fact the pie made everyone restless.

This book is for PreK- 2nd grade students. It tells the story of Ma and Pa Brindle who cooks a secret recipe for a giant pie. The pie makes all who consume the pie have weird dreams, in which they all come to life. Ma Brindle eventually ends the adventures but will also keep children on their seats. Overall, great read!