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Infinite Slices: Picture Books for Pi(e) Day !

This Pi(e) Day list for 3.14 serves up picture books stuffed with pies and pizzas, giving young readers a tasty way to celebrate the day. 3/10/26

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  • The Humble Pie likes to give others the spotlight. Aw, shucks!--they deserve it! But when he's paired with his best friend, Jake the Cake, for a school project, he soon realizes that staying in the shadows isn't always as sweet as pie.
    Picture Book, 2025New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — jE
  • A band of swashbuckling pie-rats has only one goal: to find dessert! Whether it's banana cream, lemon meringue, apple, or cherry, these ravenous rodents will battle storms and scallywags to find the best pie. But will their adventures reveal that…
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Viking, 2024. — jE
  • Edgar the shark is hosting a pizza party, but he forgot the pizza, so he and his crab friend, Lotta, decide to make a pizza from scratch--and invite all their friends to bring their favorite toppings.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2024. — jE
  • Cake and Pie must battle it out to determine who gets to be the favorite dessert.
    Picture Book, 2023New York : Clarion Books, [2023] — jE
  • When she returns home with ingredients for a pie-- and a panda who wants to help-- Cindy and Panda try out their freestyle recipe which results in messy deliciousness and a sweet new friendship.
    Picture Book, 2023New York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — jE
  • Pizza!

    a Slice of History

    Pizzoli, Greg,
    This colorful "history of pizza takes readers through time and around the globe to serve up the real story of the world's favorite food.
    Book, 2022New York : Penguin USA, 2022. — j 641.8248 Piz
  • When a pizzeria owner's son requests a pizza with everything, his father helps him add sauce, a house, penguins, and more, until they accidentally create a pizza black hole.
    Picture Book, 2021San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, LLC, [2021] — jE
  • ipo thinks that pizza is the best. No, Pipo knows that pizza is the best. It is scientific fact. But when she sets out on a neighborhood-spanning quest to prove it, she discovers that "best" might not mean what she thought it meant.
    Picture Book, 2020New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, 2020. — jE
  • The apple trees in Sophie's orchard are ready to grow apples, and Sophie is ready to make a pie!
    Picture Book, 2020Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, [2020] — jE
  • Pete the Cat wants to throw the perfect pizza party. Pete invites the gang over to share his awesome pepperoni pizza. But when no one else agrees with Pete's choice of toppings, they try adding their own. Will Pete's perfect pizza party be ruined?…
    Picture Book, 2019New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — jE
  • Lorenzo the lobster loves pizza. He races home to tell his sea turtle friend so they can make a pizza together, but there's one problem: Lorenzo can't remember the ingredients. This item is Returnable
    Picture Book, 2016New York, New York : Little Bee Books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group, 2016. — jE
  • Running through town to get a pizza for himself and his mother, Pinky unwittingly becomes covered in snow; now everyone thinks he is a walking snowman!
    Picture Book, 2016New York : Holiday House, [2016] — jE
  • Pizza

    a Frank Asch Bear Book

    Asch, Frank,
    After trying pizza for the very first time, everything Baby Bear sees reminds him of the tasty treat and he decides never to eat anything else.
    Picture Book, 2015New York : Aladdin, 2015. — jE
  • Posy Peyton and her friends are very sad that she will be moving away, but when they try to cheer themselves up by baking a pie, they realize that Posy's leaving does not have to mean saying goodbye.
    Picture Book, 2014New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., ©2014. — jE
  • How does Racoon love pizza? Oh, let him count the ways. He loves the gooey cheesy-ness, salty pepperoni-ness, sweet sweet tomato-ness, and of course the crispity crunchity crust. But someone is always chasing poor Raccoon away from his favorite food…
    Picture Book, 2013New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2013] — jE
  • A young baker heads off on a round-the-U.S.A. journey to find all the materials she needs to stock her kitchen. Includes a brightly painted endpaper map of the U.S.A. and a recipe for cherry pie.
    Picture Book, 2008New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2008] — jE
  • Relates the chain of events that enables Papa to bake his pie.
    Picture Book, 2007New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. — jE
  • In this merry, multi-species story cooked up with folksy warmth and humor, everybody gets a piece of the pie--and then some.
    Picture Book, 2006Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, [2006] — jE
  • During a drought in the early 1900s, a large loving African American family finds a delicious way to earn the money they need to save their family farm.
    Picture Book, 2003New York : Lee & Low Books, [2003] — jE
  • In this version of the traditional tale, the duck, the dog, and the cat refuse to help the Little Red Hen make a pizza but do get to participate when the time comes to eat it.
    Picture Book, 1999New York : Dutton Children's Books, [1999] — jE