Lucy and the Cherry Pie Plan: A Pip Story Book Five: 5

Lucy the fox has planned the perfect day down to the minute - and today, nothing is going according to plan.Lucy loves lists. She loves schedules, folded napkins, and a cherry pie tucked carefully in the picnic basket for exactly 1:15pm. But when her friends arrive late, a stray turtle turns lunch into a two-hour game of Turtle Toss, and her carefully timed afternoon unravels minute by minute, Lucy discovers that even the best-laid plans don't always survive contact with real life - or real friends.With gentle guidance from Mr. Walker the snail, Lucy learns to ask herself two simple questions when everything feels like it's spinning out of control: What actually changed? And what stayed the same? It's a small shift that opens up a much bigger one - and leads to a decision Lucy never would have made a day earlier: eating pie before lunch, just because she wants to.Lucy and the Cherry Pie Plan is a warm, funny story about flexibility, friendship, and the freedom that comes from letting go of the plan every once in a while - perfect for young readers (ages 6-9) who love their routines just as much as Lucy does, and for the grown-ups helping them learn that some of the best days are the ones that don't go as planned.A Pip Story - Book Five, from the creators of Pip and Mr. Walker.