How to Eat Pizza by Jon Burgerman - OPTIONAL

How to Eat Pizza by Jon Burgerman. PICTURE BOOK. Dial Books (Penguin), 2018. $17. 9780735228856

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

This text includes two different fonts - one for the narrator who is explaining how to eat pizza, and one for the pizza who is explaining why you should not eat him. The pizza uses persuasive tools like highlighting his “crusty bottom” and offering a monologue on why biggest isn’t always the best. 

This book is bright and it is about pizza, so it may draw in some readers, but it is kind of lackluster. The pizza never really achieves funny and the narrator ends up eating him with veggies on top. I think adding the veggies was supposed to be the climax, but it wasn’t a very satisfying moment.  

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher