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Madame Pamplemousse And Her Incredible Edibles (2008)

by Rupert Kingfisher(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1599903067 (ISBN13: 9781599903064)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

series

Madame Pamplemousse

review 1: A wonderful, little book; if you enjoy Roald Dahl/Lemony Snicket type books, this should appeal to you, also!Madeleine has parents - but they don't seem to care for her at all. Every summer she is sent to work in the kitchen of the restaurant run by her cruel and greedy Uncle Lard. She does discover, however, that she has a gift for cooking. One day, she mistakenly enters the shop of the mysterious Madame Pamplemousse and the rest, as they say, is history. This would be a great read-aloud for a 3rd or 4th grade class. There's a bit of a mystery to the story and the creations that line the shelves of Madame Pamplemousse's shop are enough to intrigue any child - Pate of North Atlantic Sea Serpent, Violet Petal Wine, Salt-Cured Raptor Tails, Cobra Brains in Black Butter.... more.. and the list goes on! It would be a fun activity to have the kids create their own shelf in the shop and see what concoctions they could come up with! I am happy to see that this is a series and there are two more adventures to add to my reading list.
review 2: Madame Pamplemousse owns a tiny shop that sells exotic food delicacies. Monsieur Lard owns the Squealing Pig, a restaurant of questionable cuisine. The finest chef at the Pig is Lard’s niece, Madeleine, but Lard forbids her to cook because of professional jealousy. One day, Monsieur Lard sends his niece to buy more “Mixed Innards” pate. On the way, Madeleine sees a white cat stand on his hind feet and walk through a door. She follows him and meets Madame Pamplemousse who gives her “Pate of North Atlantic Sea Serpent with Green Peppercorn Mustard.” The pate creates a sensation amongst Lard’s clientele. So, Lard goes to Madame’s shop to buy more sea serpent pate. What he gets is Madame’s own secret recipe which, when served to the diners at the Squealing Pig, raises Lard’s restaurant to the top of Paris’ fine eateries. During the events that follow, Lard’s greed and Madame Pamplemousse’s generosity help Madeleine discover her true vocation. The plot was engaging: an illusive shopkeeper with a tough-minded cat, rare foods with unimaginable ingredients, a pig-like restaurant owner, and his bullied niece. However, the writing style contains a fair amount of stilted sentence structure, and a plot that feels a bit forced in places. I definitely thought the cat’s involvement at the end of the book was unexpectedly strange. The illustrations, on the other hand, were great. They really caught the personality of the characters. Also, I was quite shocked when I came across this sentence: “And he was damned if he was going to let her keep it.” The expletive is used once more fourteen pages later. The book was written for elementary school kids in grades 3-5. I simply can’t understand what the author was thinking when he included such language! less

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