Customer Reviews

Food For Thought

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Someone forgot to tell this duo not to play with their food. Thank goodness, or kids wouldn't have such startling sculptures of bok choy fish or cauliflower sheep to teach them basic concepts: colors, shapes, numbers, letters and opposites. Eye-catching colors and uncluttered layouts keep this fruity menagerie moving along.

The foods are real -- and after several readings, I'm still scrutinizing the pages to see just how the artists did it. Even knowing they used black-eyed peas for eyes doesn't affect the magic: How did they find all those peppers with silly faces? How come my bruised bananas never look like giraffes?

I brought this book to my son's pre-school and the teacher didn't want to part with it: the kids wouldn't let her put it down. You'll never look at salad the same way again.

Hi,
I'm a picky parent -- I admit it. My standards for books for my kids are very high. I guess it's because I'm a professional writer and editor and my husband is a newspaper publisher. We expect lively, imaginative writing with substance, not just empty calories for our children's minds.

My three-year-old snatched this book off the library shelves. I let her check it out, but didn't plan to do much more than flip through it. When I opened it -- wow!

This book teaches concepts like numbers, opposites and more in the most imaginative way I've seen. My husband and I agreed this was a book we had to have on our shelves.

The only problem with that is this: My husband figured the best place for it would be the kitchen -- so I could try to duplicate the cool things with our family foods. Yeah, right! Far better to keep it on the coffee table. A benefit -- my kids are becoming charmed by vegetables and more willing to see them on their plates!

This is a book that I never tire of reading again and again. The characters are so lovely and yet they are all real - all cleverly put together from real fruits and vegetables. I particularly like the mushroom "michelin man" and the "shouting" orange. It is unbelievable that there are so many weird peppers that naturally show convincing expressions. Wonderful book full of surprises.

Even at 10 months, when my daughter received this as a gift, it was immediately her favorite book. She flipped from page to page and back to the cover, seeing that there were many "people" made of oranges. I've seen two other books by the same authors, but this one is "the one."

My mother was a librarian, and books have always been a part of my life. Mom always chose the best for us. This book has gorgeous photos, with a great concept of fruits and veggies. Eye-catching and beautifully made. Little ones learn, and adults perk up to an enjoyable feast. A must-have, for kitchen or coffee table. --Maure in Illinois

I love this book. It is so creative and fun - I have even given it as a gift and will continue to do so. It's a great gift idea -everyone should have it!

This cute book shouldve won the Caldecott! I dont know of any other illustrator who uses food for art! It makes me hungry just thinking about it!
It also teaches children the alphabet and makes learning awesome! Why didn't this book win???

This book is very educational to little kids but, it's also so unique and fun! We were in a group for the caldecott comitee at our school and it won for the caldecott comitee. It should have won for the caldecott award because you could tell how much effort Saxton Freymann put into it.
We made a diarama and poster for our groups presentation and it looked very cool! This is a great book for little kids to learn from, because it's so much fun to look at. We're a group of 11 year olds and we got so interested in it, even though it's for little kids. you should buy this book if you have little toddlers just learning their ABC's.

We think that Food for Thought shoould have won the Caldecott award because of their creative illustrations. Also, it was very interesting how they acutally made all the food instead of painting it. We love the colors. They are so bright and happy and fun. We could look at this book all; day and any day and STILL not get bored. It is almost like an i-spy book, theres always something hidden to find another day. We personally think that this is the best!!!!!! Hopefully, next year, a creative book similar to that, will win the Caldecott award.

This book is awesome. Not only do children learn the alphabet, colors and opposites, but they learn in a unique and fun way! Hat's off to the "artists" of this book!!!