The Pickle-Chiffon Pie Olympics - Hardcover

Bradfield, Jolly Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 193090052X ISBN 13: 9781930900523

Publisher: Purple House Press, 2011

Synopsis

I, King Rupert Pickle XIV, hereby declare that all the characters and events chronicled in this tale are true and authentic. All the people portrayed by the author lived at the time of the Pickle-Chiffon Pie Olympics held in June of 1348.

The Olympic events reported in the story (dragon wrestling, the giant climb, the moat swim, etc.) actually took place and the winners accurately reported herein. None of the names were changed, nor were locations altered.

I have affixed my royal seal and do hereby attest to the accuracy of this statement. (Well, sort of.)

Rupert XIV

About this title

From the Publisher:

The hilarious tale of a fourteenth-century Olympics (that included dragon wrestling, the giant climb and the 100-yard moat swim) in which the victor won the hand of the fair princess.

Review:

PreS-Gr 2--In this sequel to Bradfield's fanciful "Pickle-Chiffon Pie" (Rand McNally, 1967), Princess Sierra returns home from Princess College with designs to marry cute Prince Charminger. Thinking that curly hair and dimples are no basis for choosing a husband, her father decides to hold the Pickle-Chiffon Pie Olympics. Whoever emerges as the winner of the 10-day athletic competition will marry his daughter. Vowing to drown herself in the moat if she is not allowed to marry the man of her choice, Sierra storms off to stay with Aunt Venetia. Meanwhile, several eligible men, including mean Baron Brotwurst, brawny Peter Picklepicker, and a mysterious knight in black armor, compete in events such as the horseshoe toss (with the horse still attached), the giant climb, the 10-mile bicycle race (minus the bicycles, which have not yet been invented), and, of course, the discus-throw, using pickle-chiffon pies. Bradfield's outlandish story moves along at a brisk pace until the strong-willed princess eventually gets her way. Bright, splotchy pen-and-ink drawings follow the lighthearted story, although the occasional absence of color in some illustrations is somewhat puzzling. Overall, a fun additional purchase.--"Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT" Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information. --School Library Journal, July 1, 2011

Bradfield returns with a boisterous sequel...loose, playfully exaggerated pictures are suggestive of Quentin Blake's cartoons. --Publishers Weekly, April 18, 2011

About this edition

• Publisher: Purple House Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 193090052X
• ISBN 13: 9781930900523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Bradfield Jolly Roger