1. How to Make a Chocolate Cream Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Emily, Cavit, Mia, Mike, Jess, and Ryan in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class

2. Making a chocolate cream pie is really very easy. First, get all of the ingredients at the market. Mix them well, bake, and serve.

3. Unless of course, the market is closed.

4. In that case, go home and pack a suitcase. Take a hot air balloon to the Czech Republic. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. There are 10,228,744 people in the Czech Republic.

5. Take a motorcycle to Russia and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. Because of Russia’s tradition, if someone steps on your toes accidentally, you have to step on theirs back or you’ll get into a fight.

6. Take a rocket ship to Japan and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. Japan gets hit by more than one thousand earthquakes every year.

7. Take a flying shoe to Brazil. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. Instead of the dollar, Brazil has the real.

8. Better fly home. You don’t want the ingredients to spoil.

9. Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the chocolate? Have the pilot drop you off in Mexico. Mexico is three times the size of Texas.

10. Get to the nearest cacao tree. Pick a few beans. Give one to the chicken, one to the cow, and eat one yourself.

11. What about the cream? Sky dive into Germany. Milk a cow, whip the milk into cream and take it with you. Hurry home, stopping at Jones Beach to pick up a jar of salty seawater. Gummy bears were made in Germany.

12. Now all you have to do is mill the wheat into flour, evaporate the seawater from the salt, boil the sugar, persuade the chicken to lay an egg, milk the cow, churn the milk into butter, mash the beans into chocolate, add in the cream, mix the ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

13. Remember that chocolate cream pie tastes delicious topped with vanilla ice cream, which you can get at the market. But if the market happens to be closed…

14. YOU CAN EAT IT PLAIN!

15. Our Sources A Visit to Brazil by Peter and Connie Roop Culturegrams Database Czech Republic by Kristin Van Cleaf Germany by Laura Paite Salas Japan by Tracey Boraas Mexico by A. Grop Russia by Bob Italia