Are We Pears Yet?
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Two seeds can't wait to be pears, but growing takes time and patience in this funny and informative picture book from Miranda Paul, the author of Water is Water.
"When will we be pears?"
—"After we find soil."
"Hooray! We are going to be pears! Are we pears yet?"
—"No! Just be patient and wait."
Written entirely in dialogue and staged as a play, Are We Pears Yet? is a clever and hilarious informational picture book that will make you look at growth cycles and fruit trees in a whole new way. Carin Berger's artfully composed collaged stage sets will delight and amaze you.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Paul (10 Little Ninjas) and Berger (Good Night! Good Night!) transport readers to a music hall stage, complete with footlights, and present a theatrical revue starring two pear seeds. One is smaller, impatient, and endlessly interrogative, playing a Costello role to the taller, savvier seed's Abbott. As their rat-a-tat repartee appears in speech balloons, the stages of the seeds' growth are ushered in with low-tech props and costume changes: when the bigger seed explains that they can't grow without rain, a member of the stage crew (an eccentric bunch of birdlike figures in top hats) materializes with a curtain rod from which hangs a cutout cloud and raindrops. The story gets a little complicated as the seeds grow into trees and it becomes clear that they'll produce pears rather than become them (the smaller seed channels readers' potential confusion). But Berger's quirky collages are so stylish and fun, and Paul's dialogue so friendly and funny, that it's easily forgiven. An inventive treatment of a tried and true topic. Ages 4 8. Author's)
