This story earns almost "tall tale" status, it seems, with the over-the-top pie eating by the little boy. Pretty amusing. ( )

This is one little boy who is hard to fill up. He eats and eats and eats. who knew one little boy could eat more pies than three grown men. ( )

This is a typical Munsch book - weird setting, over-the-top pictures and reactions, cool sound effects, repetition in threes, and lots of funny.

It's really like an intro to tall tales, this book - we've got a kid who eats seven fried chickens and pancakes for breakfast, and who wins a pie-eating contest against a lumberjack, a truck driver, and a construction worker (who turn various colors and fall under the table) and, naturally, pie for lunch. Gotta love it :P ( )