How to Bake an American Pie

How to Bake an American Pie by Karma Wilson is a story about America and everything that it stands for. The book is written in a poet form with many of the sentences rhyming together. I liked the idea of this book and the illustrations were beautiful, but I think it would be difficult for young children to understand. It needs to be read very slowly and the ideas that pertain to America and the freedoms we have are not ideas that most young children have grasped yet. This story would be appropriate for older students.