Fruit Bowl
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Who belongs in the fruit bowl? Apples, check. Blueberries, check. Tomato, che-- Wait, what?! Tomato wants to join the other fruits, but does he belong? The perfect mix of botany and a bunch of bananas!
All the fruit are in the bowl. There's Apple and Orange. Strawberry and Peach. Plum and Pear. And, of course, Tomato.
Now wait just a minute! Tomatoes aren't fruit! Or are they?
Using sly science (and some wisdom from a wise old raisin), Tomato proves all the fruit wrong and shows that he belongs in the bowl just as much as the next blueberry! And he's bringing some unexpected friends too!
"A fun, brain-teasing food literacy lesson that's a cornucopia of produce and wordplay."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An a-peel-ing addition."--School Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After a mother enlists her child's help in putting newly purchased vegetables and fruits away, the young speaker, whose presence appears only as a word balloon, greets the fruits as old friends: "Oh, Pear. I'm glad you're back in season." The kid makes sure each one gets safely into the bowl, but why is Tomato trying to crash the party? "You belong in the fridge with the other vegetables," says the child. Savvy Tomato has the facts on his side: he started out as a seed, he explains, as did many of his comrades who are usually classified as vegetables and now demand their rightful place in the blue fruit bowl, too. In his first foray as writer and illustrator, Hoffmann (illustrator of You Can Read) offers a fun, brain-teasing food literacy lesson that's a cornucopia of produce and wordplay. His naive-styled fruits they look like generously proportioned cut-outs with stick arms and legs have vivid personalities, and their gouache colors are positively juicy. Ages 3 7.
