Mrs. Peanuckle's Fruit Alphabet (Mrs. Peanuckle's Alphabet Series #2)

by Kabbal, Jessie Ford (Illustrator)

Overview

Mrs. Peanuckle’s Fruit Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to the colorful foods that will help them grow up to be healthy and strong. Children and parents alike will want to devour the fun facts and charming illustrations of fruits from the familiar banana to the not as familiar yumberry. Mrs. Peanuckle’s Fruit Alphabet is the second in a series of board books celebrating the joy nature brings to young children at home and in the backyard, from fresh fruits and vegetables to birds, bugs, flowers, and trees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623368722
Publisher:	Rodale Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/19/2017
Series:	Mrs. Peanuckle's Alphabet Series , #2
Pages:	28
Sales rank:	30,835
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD650L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Mrs. Peanuckle loves to write, talk to animals and birds, and putter in her garden. She has a vast assortment of children and grandchildren (some of them pets and some of them imaginary). She also collects rocks, shells, books, and eccentric friends. When she is not traveling and exploring the universe, you can find her cooking and eating while singing in her magical cabin in the woods. Most of all, she loves to laugh.

Jessie Ford is an English illustrator whose colorful view of the world has been brightening up people’s lives for more than a decade. Her graphic shapes, bold color palette, hand drawn typography, and textured layers create a handmade effect that has been commissioned by clients such as Abrams, Volkswagen, Samsonite, Unilever, and Westin Hotels. She lives near the sea in Brighton with her boyfriend, Emile, and their giant ginger cat, Hal. Visit her online at sugarsnapstudio.co.uk.

Editorial Reviews

"A wonderful collection of fruit from all around the world...Bold colors, textures, and smiling faces make the fruit look spirited and playful..There is so much interesting information."—Kirkus

“These engaging volumes provide a good deal of information...entertaining geometrical illustrations” — The Horn Book

From the Publisher

01/01/2018
Baby-Toddler—"A is for Avocado. Bet you thought I'd say apple! Both are fruit because they grow on trees." And so begins the mouth-watering abecedarian that highlights nature's juicy and delectable Fruits. From asparagus to zucchini, the greens get the ABC treatment in the Vegetable entry. Both offerings feature smiling subjects rendered with paint, runny ink, colored pencil, and digital art. The humor mostly hits the mark, and the vivid illustrations just might convert picky eaters.—Shelley M. Diaz, School Library Journal

School Library Journal

2017-09-18
"A is for Avocado. Bet you thought I'd say apple! Both are fruit because they grow on trees." So starts this unusual alphabet book, which includes a wonderful collection of fruit from all around the world—common ones such as orange, raspberry, and lemon as well as fruit with which readers might be less familiar, such as dragon fruit, yumberry and "XIGUA, which is pronounced ‘she gwah' and is a Chinese and African name for watermelon." Each letter of the alphabet gets one page, with the letter and the name of the fruit in uppercase, an illustration of the fruit in vivid colors, and some tasty facts and/or commentary about it. Each sentence is written in an unnecessary mixture of typefaces,which may make it difficult for children to distinguish individual letters."Q IS FOR QUINCE WHICH is too hard and sour to eat RAW. BUT if you cook IT, IT turns PINK and MAKES a good sauce, jelly OR JAM." Bold colors, textures, and smiling faces make the fruit look spirited and playful but not particularly tempting, and they may not represent the actual fruit particularly well. Companion book Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet is very similar in look and feel, with such unusual vegetables as dandelion, fiddleheads, and watercress.There is so much interesting information in these books readers may find the problems easy to live with. Have fun with your fruits—and vegetables! (Board book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews