Hot Food: Nice!
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Michael Rosen’s hilarious viral video poem is brought to life in picture book form by award-winning illustrator Neal Layton. Young Michael thinks his dad knows everything. That is, until the fateful day when his family sits down to eat, and the potato is a bit hot. Michael knows to blow on the potato before eating, as does his brother and his mom. So why does his dad pop it straight into his mouth? Michael Rosen’s amusing retelling of the tale of his dad and the too-hot potato has become one of his most widely beloved poems, with his own performance of it inspiring a meme: “Nice!” A funny slice of family life, told in delightful repetitive text, Hot Food: Nice! is published for the first time as a picture book with bold, silly illustrations sure to charm readers of all ages.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
To transform his viral poem "Hot Food" into a picture book, Rosen (Oh Dear, Look What I Got!) tacks on a prelude: the narrator announces that as a boy, "I thought my dad knew everything." But that belief's end is clearly nigh when, at dinner, three of the pale-skinned family members (narrator, brother, and mum) approach their piping-hot mashed potatoes the same sensible way: "put a little/ bit on my fork and I/ blow—whooph whooph—// until it's cool,/ just cool,/ then into the mouth:/ nice!" But Dad plops a bite straight into his maw and immediately realizes the mistake: "His eyes pop out.// he flaps/ his hands// ...he spits bits of potato/ all over his plate." Then, seeing his stunned family, he dispenses a nugget of sage advice, urging others to "Watch out... // the potato's very hot." The verse loses some of its oomph without Rosen's lively performance, but pencil and digital media illustrations from Layton (Danny McGee Drinks the Sea) go big and broad, capturing one of those moments of small-potatoes domestic slapstick that immediately becomes treasured family lore. Ages 3–7.
