Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie

Sternberg, Julie. (2011). Like pickle juice on a cookie.  New York: Amulet Books.
2012 Bluebonnet Book


(grades 2-4) Eight year old Eleanor's beloved babysitter, Bibi, has moved away.  It is the worst month of her life.  It's like pickle juice on a cookie.  Natalie is Eleanor's new babysitter and is sensitive to Eleanor's grief.  Eleanor struggles with doing activities with Natalie that she used to do with Bibi.

This book is just charming.  I loved it so much that I read it aloud with my class.  They fell in love with the book also.  The book is written in free verse and is simply poetic.  They are a few sweet illustrations scattered here and there that only add to the book's charm.