1. How to Make a Pear Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Patrick, Colin, Allison, Dylan, and Kaylee in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class

2. Making a pear 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 helicopter to Brazil. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. Carnival is Brazil’s biggest festival.

5. Take a submarine to Cuba and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. In Cuba, for dinner, they always have rice, beans, and bread.

6. Take a train to Iran and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. More than 10 percent of Iran's population is nomadic or seminomadic, meaning that they lack permanent homes and move from place to place.

7. Take a plane to Venezuela. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. In Venezuela all children ages 7-15 have to go to school.

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

9. Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the pears? Have the pilot drop you off in Greece. Greeks love sports, especially soccer.

10. Get to the nearest pear tree. Pick a few pears. Give one to the chicken, one to the cow, and eat one yourself. Hurry home, stopping at Jones Beach to pick up a jar of salty seawater.

11. 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, slice the pears, mix the ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

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

13. YOU CAN EAT IT PLAIN!

14. Our Sources A Visit to Brazil by Peter and Connie Roop A Visit to Greece by Peter and Connie Roop Cuba by Anna Cavallo Culturegrams Database Iran by Madeline Donaldson Venezuela by Helga Jones