Red and the Egg Pie by Donna Gingery<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Black children, it makes a huge difference when the images they see in books and the stories they read feature characters who look like them. Growing up with such books as Further Adventures of Dick and Jane<\/em>, where nary a person of color was in sight, I know it did for me as a child. This is still a problem in the traditional publishing world, so I give a hat tip to the independent authors like Donna Gingery and her children\u2019s book, Red and the Egg Pie.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our story opens with Red, a young girl who was so red when she was born that her family called her Red. She has an older sister, Kitty, who loves reading, and she is very close to her Granny. We are taken through her morning, and we learn that she has a habit of going to neighbors\u2019 houses to eat, despite already having a hearty breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This morning, Red\u2019s off\u2014again\u2014to her best friend\u2019s house, where her BFF\u2019s granny has made a pie and offers some to Red. Red, of course, has little if any self-control, and quiche doesn\u2019t set well with her. If only Granny doesn\u2019t find out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved reading this book, and I thoroughly enjoyed Gingery\u2019s hilarious rendition of it at the Minnesota Black Authors Expo. When it comes to Granny, I think of my own. She was a woman who cooked everything from scratch, which made for tantalizing scents from her kitchen. On top of that, nothing got past her. As for Red, she reminds me of myself and some of my cousins when we thought we were getting away with something, only to discover we hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gingery was born in Selma, Alabama. Despite a high school counselor telling her she\u2019d never make it to college, she now holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in theater, a master\u2019s degree in educational leadership, and a K-12 administration license. She loves storytelling and has a big imagination\u2014my kind of sistah! In addition, she is a sister, mother, grandmother, wife, and friend to many. Red and the Egg Pie<\/em> can be purchased through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Strive Publishing. Also, kudos to Letizia Rizzo for the wonderful illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you, Donna, for a fun story, and I will always remember the way you call out \u201cRed!\u201d<\/em> in your storytelling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Red and the Egg Pie by Donna Gingery As Black children, it makes a huge difference when the images they see in books and the stories they read feature characters who look like them. Growing up with such books as Further Adventures of Dick and Jane, where nary a person of color was in sight, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[116,118,88],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-black-children","tag-childrens-book","tag-minnesota-black-authors-expo","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Red-and-the-Egg-Pie-by-Donna-Gingery-e1738702968238.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}