Book Title – Secret Pizza Party
Published – September 3rd, 2013
Author – Adam Rubin
Illustrator – Daniel Salmieri
WTF… I’ll discuss this more a little later in the comments below.
Video was uploaded by youtuber MindfulloFck on November 29, 2016.
Pick of the Day: Secret Pizza Party
School Library Journal
by SLJ
8/21/2013
Excerpt:
RUBIN, Adam. ‘Secret Pizza Party’. illus. by Daniel Salmieri. 40p. Dial. Sept. 2013. RTE $16.99. ISBN 978-0-8037-3947-5. LC 2012025360.
Gr 1-4–Raccoon, paws and nose pressed plaintively to the glass, stares longingly into a pizza parlor. His nemesis, the Pizza Man, chases him off with a broom, and an unseen narrator rhapsodizes, “Ah, pizza… So beautiful, you could hang it on the wall of a museum. So convenient you could eat it in the bathtub.” Raccoon reappears looking forlorn, and the narrator suggests a pizza party at Raccoon’s house–a secret pizza party because, “When you make something secret, you make it special. Regular handshake: Boring. Secret handshake: Booyah!” Wearing stilts and a trench coat, Raccoon absconds with a stolen pizza only to discover an enormous SECRET PIZZA PARTY happening nearby. Unfortunately, he is unable to play it cool and blows his disguise as he rolls around in a pizza-induced frenzy. He flees from the broom-wielding mob (led by the Pizza Man), but his armload of pizza and giant grin prove that he has no regrets. Because the narrator converses directly with Raccoon, listeners are aligned with him and identify with the roguish creature. The skillful gouache-and-ink compositions are full of sly details and visual humor. It’s hard not to giggle at scenes like the lanky pizza man with angry eyebrows and a handlebar mustache rolling out dough while glaring at a “Wanted” poster featuring the raccoon. With a casually diverse cast of characters, ‘Secret Pizza Party’ is a sure hit for primary-grade kids, who will appreciate the subtle humor and absurdity.– Anna Haase Krueger, Ramsey County Library, White Bear Lake, MN
View the complete article, including image, at:
http://www.slj.com/2013/08/reviews/pick-of-the-day-secret-pizza-party/#
Mayor de Blasio reads ‘Secret Pizza Party’ to Queens kids — and the plot mirrors the fund-raising probe he’s caught up in
New York Daily News
by Dale W. Eisinger and Denis Slattery
4/30/2016
Excerpt:
When you make something secret, you make it special.
That was the bizarre lesson MAYOR DE BLASIO — whose questionable fund-raising tactics are at the center of an ongoing criminal probe — delivered Saturday to a group of children at a Queens library. (bold and caps emphasis added)
Hizzoner read from the illustrated children’s book “Secret Pizza Party” at the Woodside branch of the Queens Library alongside library boss Dennis Walcott and City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.
The poorly chosen yarn follows the exploits of a wily raincoat-clad raccoon who is overly enthusiastic about keeping secrets and stealing pizza.
“When you make something secret, you make it special,” the immoral masked mammal says. “Regular handshake: Boring. Secret handshake: Booyah!”
The EYEBROW-RAISING book could barely keep the attention of the roomful of rambunctious kids, and may have left the mayor with a bad case of indigestion. He didn’t seem to recognize the unintended irony. (bold and caps emphasis added)
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View the complete article, including images, at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-reads-book-kids-mirrors-fund-raising-probe-article-1.2620104
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My comment: Hmmmmm! What could possibly be ADULT EYEBROW-RAISING about a silly little book recommended for young children, Grades 1 – 4, and why is the super-busy MAYOR of NEW YORK CITY publicly reading aloud this little book to an inattentive audience. ??????? VERY STRANGE
Appears that the original uploaded of the video (2013) was removed. The creator of the video uploaded it again in 2017. Please see S e c r e t Pizza:
How about this perverted children’s book sold at Target for the past 6 months?
https://www.dogobooks.com/i-need-a-new-butt/book-review/0486787990?ref=ddg
Or this one??? The sequel??? WTF?
https://www.dogobooks.com/i-broke-my-butt-the-cheeky-sequel-to-the-international-bestseller-i-need-a-new-butt/book-review/0486842738?ref=ddg
@ GET..THEM..ALL:
Thank you for letting us know about those two books. From what I’ve read so far from reviews, and excerpts, they do seem to be pedo-books.
Checked out the author Dawn McMillan and coincidentally (?) she also wrote a book called, It Started with Pizza.