Frankie's Favorite Food
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5.0 • 1 calificación
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- S/ 39.90
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Descripción editorial
A scrumptiously adorable story about a boy, a school play and his love for food. Featuring foods from all over the world, this debut picture book will make you hungry for more!
Frankie has a problem: he has too many favorite foods. He can't bring himself to choose just one to be for the school play, so on the day of the performance, he's still without a costume. His teacher comes up with a delicious idea: what if Frankie becomes the Costume Manager? That way, he can parlay his love of all things culinary into the whole production. From adding some last-minute garnishes to helping the rice and beans into their costumes, Frankie shines backstage until he has a brilliant idea and decides to make his debut on the menu as something that combines his love for all his favorite foods . . .
In this funny and scrumptiously adorable story, readers will delight in the variety of foods represented and the clever performances full of silly word play and sweet camaraderie. In Kelsey Garrity-Riley's author-illustrator debut, she shows the joy of food and revels in celebrating the way food can bring people together and inspire creativity.
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As classmates prepare to dress as their favorite eats for a school play, foodie Franklin cannot bear to narrow things down ("How could he decide between a bowl of chowder and some fresh guacamole?"). After he asks to take the stage as "pancakes topped with tomato soup and sprinkled with popcorn," among other combinations (a mushroom-clad student pulls the cap over their eyes), Frankie's teacher suggests that he lend his food savvy as costume manager. Happily, his can-do attitude and work adding "last-minute garnishes" backstage and sweeping up costume detritus leads him to realize his culinary character. The story can feel a titch formulaic, a sort of conveyance for the real star: Garrity-Riley's charming gouache, ink, and colored-pencil costumes, which capture children in all manner of costume comestibles. What's not to love about a pickle wearing a knapsack, a balletic bowl of ramen, or a calm-looking tin of sardines waiting in the wings? Ages 3 7.
