Former broadcaster Laura Langston also deals with loss of memory in Mile-High Apple Pie (Random House, $24.95). Margaret's grandma is "not the wrinkled kind; she's the special kind"; who wears trainers with yellow laces and once had an art gallery and played the piano.

Now Grandma confuses Chopin for Bach and sweet peas for roses. But she remembers bruises are the sweetest part of the apple. "A fruit man told me,"; she says. One terrible day, she no longer recognizes Margaret. "You are my apple-cheeked bruise girl,"; she says. And Margaret comes to understand she's like the sweet bits in Grandma's favourite mile-high apple pie. Lively collage-style illustrations by Lindsey Gardiner accompany the story based on a situation in Langston's own family. Pie recipe included.

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