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Fed Up!: A Feast of Frazzled Foods

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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!

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.