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From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza.

Do YOU like PIZZA? Because right now, somewhere in the world, someone is eating it. Did you know that in the United States we eat 350 slices of pizza every second? Or that in Sweden they serve pizza with bananas and peanuts? All over the world, people love pizza—but where did it come from? And who made the first pizza?

Join award-winning author and illustrator Greg Pizzoli as he travels through time and around the globe to discover the mouth-watering history of pizza. Bursting with color, flavor, fun facts, and a family-friendly English muffin pizza recipe, Pizza!: A Slice of History reveals the delicious story of the world's best food.

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ISBN-13:	9780425291078
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	08/09/2022
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	93,750
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Greg Pizzoli is the creator of the Baloney and Friends series as well as a three-time Theodor Seuss Geisel Award recipient for The Watermelon Seed (Medal winner), The Book Hog (Honor book), and Good Night Owl (Honor book). He is also the author-illustrator of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Impossible True Story of Tricky Vic: The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. He lives in Philadelphia, where he eats a lot of pizza.

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10/31/2022
With a bespectacled pizza rat as a guide and stylized cartooning punctuated in “four spot colors: sweet-tomato red, fresh-basil green, greasy-cheese yellow, and charred-crust black,” this breezy, reportorial picture book proffers an origin story behind pizza’s perennial popularity. The pivotal figure is the exuberantly mustachioed Raffaele Esposito, a 19th-century Neapolitan chef who created what is now recognized as pizza, and turned Italy’s Queen Margherita into a superfan. Readers also learn how the dish embodies bigger stories of immigration and global events (“Between 1880 and 1924, four million Italians moved to the United States. Aren’t you glad they did?”). Celebrating pizza as both common ground (people of varying abilities, ages, and skin tones enjoy slices around a large table) and a delicious emblem of individuality (pages survey pies including Detroit’s square version and Brazil’s green pea–topped pizzas), Pizzoli’s enthusiasm proves as bubbly as piping-hot mozzarella. Ages 4–8. (Aug.)

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Budding cooks, dedicated eaters, and culinary historians will relish the presentation. A tasty overview of a popular dish.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Geisel Award Winner Pizzoli serves up fun in this high-interest helping for early readers.” –Booklist

“Pizzoli’s four-color print illustrations—in Italian-themed red, white, and green, complemented with swaths of doughy yellow—sport the wry humor his fans have come to recognize.” –The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Readers learn from the neon-bright pages of Pizza! A Slice of History, a picture book by Greg Pizzoli, who, given his name, might have been born with an appetite for the subject. Light and chatty, with blocky illustrations in four culinary colors, the book takes readers ages 3-8 through the origins and attributes of a beloved foodstuff.” –Wall Street Journal

“Celebrating pizza as both common ground and a delicious emblem of individuality, Pizzoli’s enthusiasm proves as bubbly as piping-hot mozzarella.” –Publishers Weekly

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2022-05-11
A tasty overview of a popular dish.
In this history of the finger or knife-and-fork food, a bespectacled rat takes readers back in time to ancient Greece and Persia (where some say the food may have originated) and then forward to 19th-century Naples and a chef named Raffaele Esposito, who “was famous for making the best pizza in Naples.” Pizzoli notes that King Umberto and Queen Margherita heard about the pizza on a visit to Naples and that, according to lore, the queen requested it—an image of Esposito riding a horse with pizza boxes tied to it offers a whimsical depiction of what Pizzoli dubs “the first pizza delivery.” Italian immigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the return of U.S. soldiers from Italy after World War II contributed to the widespread demand for the pies. Not content with the typical recipes, chefs all over the world have added toppings ranging from peas (Brazil) to fish (Russia) to coconuts (Costa Rica) to mayo jaga (Japan). The simple recipe for toaster oven–style minipizzas at the end of the book is child-friendly, starting with English muffins and adding mozzarella and tomatoes. Flavoring the concise yet fun narrative is the deliciously inspired palette dominated by red, green, and white that evokes both the Italian flag and pizza itself. (This book was reviewed digitally.)
Budding cooks, dedicated eaters, and culinary historians will relish the presentation. (Informational picture book. 4-8)

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