Customer Reviews

A Day at the Market

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Bought 2 copies: 1 for my toddler nephew and one as a souvenir for myself. A beautiful book that pays tribute to one of my favourite places in the world. Quirky in parts, just like Seattle and its people. For those of us who have lived in this place, and called it our local, its attention to detail, and the inclusion of so many actual parts of the market is the best thing about it. Recommend for child and adult alike, a more worthy souvenir then some tacky magnet of the space needle

My sister lives in Seattle and my family lives in the Midwest. We bought this book so we could read it to our 15mo old and be able to talk about her aunt more. It is a colorful, busy, fun book with great illustrations and obviously extensive personal knowledge of Pike's Place. Very happy with this book.

We received this book as a gift, and I am purchasing it on Amazon as a gift for another friend. It is one of the most beautiful books I have seen - both visually and literally. The illustrations are stunning - vibrant colors, slightly abstract nature, she even shows all races and ages when painting people - lovely! The rhyming text is wonderful - not your run-of-the-mill children's rhymes, but more like poetry...."empty crates, stack 'em around, button mushrooms on the ground...". She also gives an excellent story depicting the real life of an active farmer's market, and obviously has personal knowledge of Pike's Place Market, using some of the vendor's real names. I highly recommend this book for any age child - I am reading it to my 16 month old daughter and she loves it!

While the rhyming text to this book is fresh and fun, the real joy in sharing this book with your child comes from the amazing colorful pictures in vibrant colors that cover every page. Beautiful!

Sometimes you know a place so well, you memorize it like a song in your heart. Such is Anderson's obvious feel for Seattle's Pike Place Market, where she's lived and shopped and created for 25 years.

Open this dazzling book and plunge into the bustling farmer's market, where vendors hawk and customers scurry and even a hobo dumpster dives. Color explodes off pages of cut paper, with windows that offer peeps into other pages and crowded new vistas.

I've visited this national treasure only once, as a special treat for my 40th birthday. Our pixelated photos can't do justice to what Anderson captures with rhyming text that rips along in a syncopated approximation of street noises and market chatter:

Bakers baking,
heaven lingers ...
Plain or frosted?
Cinnamon fingers.

In a word: Yummy.