Sunshine Pie: A story to grow, bake and share

by Sarah Edmonds

Overview

“Olive and Aunty Jen are making a sunshine pie for a picnic with friends, but how do you turn sunshine into pie?...a sweet look at relatives working together to make a treat for their friends….Edmonds’ illustrations are bright and cheerful. A low-key tale that’s tasty whether it’s sunny or rainy.”—Kirkus Reviews

'Sunshine! We're making a sunshine pie.'

Olive and Aunty Jen are going to make a special pie for their picnic in the garden. It's a SUNSHINE pie! But how do you catch the sun and put it in a pie? Olive is going to find out.

Join them in the supermarket and as they pick their own fruit at the farm, before heading back home to bake. But storm clouds are building – will rain ruin their picnic? It is, after all, a sunshine pie...

Drawing on themes of intergenerational friendship and the value of community, this cozy story journeys from farm to table and teaches us that the best stories, like pies, are made for sharing.

A warm-hearted picture book with a recipe at the back so you too can make your very own sunshine pie!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801301114
Publisher:	Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	609,817
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Sarah Edmonds is a freelance illustrator on projects with publishers (such as the popular Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks and Other Incredible Creature Features), museums, national parks and charities. Alongside this her collection of playful illustrated gifts has grown and is sold online and in gift shops.

Editorial Reviews

“Olive and Aunty Jen are making a sunshine pie for a picnic with friends, but how do you turn sunshine into pie?...a sweet look at relatives working together to make a treat for their friends….Edmonds’ illustrations are bright and cheerful. A low-key tale that’s tasty whether it’s sunny or rainy.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-04-24
Olive and Aunty Jen are making a sunshine pie for a picnic with friends, but how do you turn sunshine into pie?

Together, the two shop for the pie crust ingredients, then head to a farm for the sunshine filling. It turns out that any fruit that grows sweet and juicy thanks to the sun’s rays can fill a sunshine pie. In this case, Olive and Aunty Jen pick blackberries, raspberries, and apples (not usually in season simultaneously). At home, they make the crust and stir the filling (readers may be confused here about the directive that Olive make a wish while stirring, and many will be unfamiliar with the object they place in the middle of the completed pie—a pie bird—before baking). But when Olive goes out to find the perfect spot for a picnic, it’s raining! Looks like the picnic will become a kitchen party, and the pie will be a “sunshine-and-rain pie,” the rain having contributed to “help[ing] the fruit trees grow.” While the tale is pretty simple, it’s a sweet look at relatives working together to make a treat for their friends. A recipe with ingredients listed by weight is included. Edmonds’ illustrations are bright and cheerful. Both Aunty Jen and Olive are light-skinned. Olive sports blue shorts, a red T-shirt, and dark braids. The invitees are diverse in race and age. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A low-key tale that’s tasty whether it’s sunny or rainy. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews