See Anxious Apples, Impatient Ice Cream, lettuce that's Suddenly Salad...whether they're about to be eaten, melting in the hot sun or being tossed in a salad bowl, Rex Barron's eye-catching characters are altogether hilarious, tragic, and so nearly human! A fresh and unique ABC for all ages--see the real feelings of the foods you eat. Irresistible fruits, vegetables and other foods bring new meaning to the food chain and a dose of humor to eating. This book is impossible to look at without laughing--and thinking about your next bite!
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From Publishers Weekly
Beginning with "Anxious Apples" who stand beside a lunchbox, contemplating an apple core, this edgy alphabet book's veggie stars are a worried lot. A "Tomato in Trouble" anticipates being squashed by a boot, two "Exiting Eggs" watch in alarm as a third egg sizzles in a pan and, like a crowd of protesters, "Objecting Oranges" face down a juicer. A woe-is-me cabbage sobs over a plastic container of cole slaw; a dueling lemon and lime give new meaning to the expression "food fight." Barron's (Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg) acrylic wash and colored pencil illustrations are full of good humor and verve. A number of jokes may require the appreciation of older readers: understanding the wit or significance of "Dills [that] Debate Destiny" and a "Zen Zucchini" meditating in a Japanese garden, for instance, may be beyond the very young. But those ready to graduate from the vegetable vagaries of Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers's How Are You Peeling? will find plenty of food for thought hereAand the portrait of the "Potatoes [that] Ponder Politics" as they lounge on a couch and watch two "Quarreling Quinces" debate on TV is a satirical gem. All ages. (Oct..-- Ponder Politics" as they lounge on a couch and watch two "Quarreling Quinces" debate on TV is a satirical gem. All ages. (Oct.)
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 1-Barron has designed an ABC book that depicts an assortment of fruits and vegetables acting alliteratively. While children will doubtless appreciate the "Anxious Apples" as they peer in dismay at a fully chewed core, some of the other attempts at humor will probably be lost on them, notably "Dills Debate Destiny," which pictures pickles garbed as Greek philosophers, and "Zen Zucchini." The illustrations, done with acrylic wash and colored pencil, are nicely drawn and add to the humor of the book. However, while the concept here is clever and the execution above average, those libraries already owning Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffer's How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods (Scholastic, 1999) may regard this as an additional purchase.
Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
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Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Anything BUT Fed Up!,
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This review is from: Fed Up!: A Feast of Frazzled Foods (Hardcover)
I dissolved into giggles when I stumbled across this alphabet book. The drawings are delightfully silly, showing fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs coming to their untimely ends or in other fraught situations. Rex Barron, an illustrator new to me, creates amazing personalities for these items of produce. This is definitely a keeper. Fair warning - if you are prone to anthropomorphizing, you may find yourself reluctant to bite into that crisp shiny apple after reading this!
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A Worried Alphabet Book.,
By Cady Hayden "Children's Book Author" (Bergenfield, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fed Up!: A Feast of Frazzled Foods (Hardcover)
The expressions on the foods faces are priceless, such as "Anxious Apples" afraid to be a core or "Nauseated Nectarines" floating in rough sink water. Illustrations are astounding and don't need more than the simple 2-4 words on each page. Also a good book to teach emotions and help children learn new foods. I read this book to my first grade class and wrote the adjectives on the board. I asked each child to use one of the words 5 times that day and they were able to easily. This basic book leads to great fun and conversation.
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