Pickle-Chiffon Pie
Author:
Roger Bradfield
Illustrator:
Roger Bradfield
Publication:
1967 by Rand McNally & Company
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Humor, Picture Books
Pages:
60
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Three very different princes seeking to win the hand of the princess go off into the forest to see who can bring back the most wonderful thing and marry the princess.
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Pickle-Chiffon Pie is a story without a villain. No fighting, no bloodshed, but still exciting and fast-moving. It is a tale that stretches the imagination: the reader must accept a juggling lion (six cans of root beer at once!) and a sixteen-footed Gazoo. Not a hard assignment for a child, but perhaps a bit more difficult for a worldly grown-up.
Take heart, you staid elders. The story has elements running throughout that should appeal to adults as well as children (how ’bout mice that paint in the fashion of Picasso, Matisse, Grant Wood and even Toulouse Lautrec?) because the author knew that if a story IS A REALLY GOOD ONE, parents everywhere would be commanded by their children to read it aloud again and again. And maybe even once more…
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Pickle-Chiffon Pie 
Reprinted in 2004 by Purple House Press
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Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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Pickle Chiffon Pie
Reviewed by Sara Masarik
Do you read dust jackets? Be honest. Do you? Do I? If I am honest, only sometimes. Last fall Jill Morgan sent me a box of some of her favorite Purple House Press books hoping that I would like them as much as she does. It turns out that I do. I. Really. Do.
When the box arrived, many of the titles were unknown to me, so I took the time to read the dust jackets so I could decide in which order to best enjoy these little treasures. When I got to Pickle-Chiffon Pie by Roger Bradfield, the dust jacket made me laugh so hard that my children came from other rooms to find out what I was enjoying. They made me read the dust jacket aloud to them, not once, but many times.
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