This is now the prize book in my gardening collection. It should be in yours, too. (
About.com Books Review: Trees and Shrubs 200810)
This work makes a great source and reference for artists, designers and gardeners. (
Making Scents 200812)
This lusciously-illustrated volume...fruitfully combines full-page and other photographs...with scientific names and explanations...of classification, evolution, growth and reproductive habits. (
SciTech Book News 20081127)
"Fruit" is clearly an art book. The images are arresting and the stories fascinating. (Joel M. Lerner
Finger Lakes Times 20090110)
Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible is pure poetry. (
Garden Design 200903)
[Best of 2008] Fruit is little short of astonishing. (David Middleton
January Magazine 200903)
Fruits have an amazing variety of forms that are displayed in high definition images in this exquisite picture book. (
National Garden Clubs, The National Gardener 20090108)
Simply as art, the book could stand alone. But the reader's in luck. Those marvelous photographs accompany a fascinating text. (Chris Smith
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20081213)
A mammoth undertaking...pictorially magnificent. (Judy Creighton
The Daily News (Kamloops) 20081213)
Stuppy divulges the copulating secrets of numerous fruits in a humourous, explicit fashion. (Joel Bentley
GardenWise 20081207)
Amazing images... Stuppy's thoroughly scientific examination of what makes a fruit a fruit is peppered with amusing observations. (Wendy Thomson
GardenWise 2008)
A fascinating look at a subject that has baffled botanists for years...The book is pictorially magnificent. (
Canadian Press 20110501)
A swanky coffee table tome, packed with truly amazing photos....Kessler's pictures reveal just how precious--and extraordinary--our planet is. (Sonia Day
The Toronto Sun )
Fruit is clearly an art book. The images are arresting and the stories fascinating. (Joel M. Lerner
The Washington Post )
Fruit is just as visually luscious and insightful into the juicy secrets of some of our world's most delicious fruits. (Linda Stilkowski
Winnipeg Free Press )
Beautiful.... users can gain a better understanding of plant reproduction and how it thrives in the natural world. (Mary Ellen Snodgrass
American Reference Book Annual )
A remarkable collaboration...this stunning book will fascinate any reader interested in the natural world and biological structures. (
I Can Garden.com )
Stuppy's text is engaging, and covers most everything you would want to know about fruits, from biology to natural history. (Kurt A. Reynertson, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Economic Botany, Vol. 64 )
