A sweet, old-fashioned mystery with a pie recipe in front of every chapter. Enjoyed listening to the audio and imagining Lardo the cat and all the other fine citizens of Ipswitch. When Aunt Polly passed away why did she leave her pie crust recipe to a cat? And now that Alice has been bequeathed that very cat, what will she and the town do when Lardo disappears in the middle of the night? They all miss Polly and her pies. Will the magic of pies and the famous Blueberry prize ever return to Ipswit...

I think it was an awesome book!!! i loved how the settings always changed, because then it gets boring and then i don't like it. I liked it when every chapter it has a different pie recipe!!! it was a good mystery book and I enjoyed reading it. It is about a girl that has an aunt that is the best pie maker in the small town that they live in. When the aunt dies she leaves a note behind saying that she left he most famous apple pie recipe to Lardo the cat. When the note is passed o to different p...

A seriously cute book! Alice's coming to terms after losing her beloved Aunt Polly, AKA the pie lady, her strained relationship with her mother, her new friend Charlie, and the cat, Lardo (!) make for a great read with a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. Made all that more special reading with my ten year old granddaughter!

This book was an absolute delight to read !I would have loved it when in 3rd or 4th grade and am pleased that now in my mid 50s I got immense pleasure from reading it.I am happy to see wonderful stories are still being written today and even more pleased that I have never lost my childlike traits and that I can be thrilled to bits over a kid's book, rather than always reading adult material.A+++++++++

I like things that are not pie but which remind me of pie. Pushing Daisies. Twin Peaks (which I am, coincidentally, re-watching right now). Er, other things I can't think of right now. Will I be adding this to the list? Sure, why not? It's a cute little slice (haha, puns are dumb) of historical/mystery/small-town whatever. I didn't love it and, while others found the "Blueberry Award" and "Mock Blueberry" competition cute, it was a little too insider-y, wink wink, nudge nudge for me. But it's an...

Great book! I am re-reading it!!

This book is seriously my favorite book of all time. I love how Sarah Weeks writes this book, realistic yet a little mysterious, it really pulls you in! I read it in one day so I would consider this book short and a very fast read. I can't even put it in words how amazing this book is, except for you should read this book!

Nice but I don't see what all the hubbub is.

I always loved this book. It is so heartwarming with stories of family, experiencing loss for the first time, and catching a culprit. It was also very funny when Alice was trying to catch the culprit with her friend Charlie. I think a lot of people would enjoy this fun and delicious (As in many yummy pie descriptions!!) book.**It also includes delicious pie recipes!**

Thoughts After Reading:Pie was a really sweet story with recipes mixed in the chapters. The whole town's love of Polly's pies and Polly herself was heartwarming. I'm happy with how everything turned out. I'm a little surprised there was an epilogue, but I didn't see it as a bad thing.Review:Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, has passed away. Her pies were famous and she was known as a kind, caring woman. She gave away her pies and with the help of her neighbors has been supplied the ingredie...

Apple, cherry, blueberry, oh my! But wait, who holds the secrets to making the perfect pie?When the Pie Queen of Ipswitch passes away, she appears to take the secret of her world-famous pie crust recipe with her. But what if she didn't? In a turn of events that has the town scrambling, Polly Portman leaves the recipe to her cat, Lardo... and leaves him in the care of her niece, Alice.Suddenly, everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, making everyone go pie-crazy. People become more

Perhaps I am not the right audience for this novel. It was loaned to me by my younger sister, maybe it is intended for a younger audience. For me personally, however, it missed the mark. This brief 180 page story follows the protagonist, Alice, as she tries to cope with her beloved Aunt Polly's passing, and solve the mystery of a catnapping. This is a lofty goal for anyone, but considering Alice is trying to accomplish this over the course of only a few days (and 180 pages), for me, that goal mi...

I liked this book. I found it hard to believe that reporters would climb through children's windows in the 1950's, but the pie descriptions prompted me to get in my car and find a pie. Overall, a really sweet read.

Weeks, Sarah. Pie.Alice’s Aunt Polly is the very best pie maker in her small town, and has even won multiple Blueberry Awards from her pies, but she gives them away instead of making a huge amount of money. She is very supportive of Alice, so when she dies suddenly, Alice is crushed. The people of the town react in their own ways at the loss, many of them trying (and failing) to bake similar pies. Alice’s mother is bitter that Polly had such a loyal following and such talent, and when it turns o...

I got a signed copy of this book from a family member (darn me, I can't remember who!). I have read this book at least three times. I don't like mysteries, but this book is just one of those exceptions. Especially since there is a cat involved.I liked that the recipes for pies (mentioned in the book) are at the beginning of each chapter. Another thing I like is that Polly Portman put her personal notes at the bottom.What I don't like is that Alice's mom thinks she is ignored because her sister (...

Charming and unique. Will be interested to see what others think about this one.

this book is......... SOOOOOOOO GOOOOD

Alice a young girl had an aunt who was a really good pie baker, some people call her the queen of pies. Every Sunday she would watch her aunt give her costomers her pies. She did not charge for her pies they where all free, she belived if something makes you happy why charge. Polly (the aunt) had a cat named lardo and a small pie shop in ipswich , she has won 3 blueberry awords .When she passes a way they read her will that said the cat gets the recipes and alice got the cat. Every one in ipswic...

What a delightful author. Loved the whole book. Yes it is sad the pie crust recipe is never given but at the same time how could you truly give one because if someone doesn't think it is the best then it ruins the mystic of the whole story.

Cute book we read for our brave writer curriculum. My boys are excited to try the recipes in the book. I also thought the mystery was a fun thing to sort through. Here are my complaints: I know this book was set in the past, but I could have done without comments like “Nancy Drew being a girl book” or how “a girl could be as pretty if she wore her hair longer”. For me, even though the lesson of sharing blessings and dealing with grief in creative ways was there, it wasn’t worth the trite comment...