Umami
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Umami, sick of cold fish, travels the world trying different and delicious food to bring back home for the other penguins to try.
Umami is tired of eating cold fish.
But fish is what the penguins eat. Fish for every meal and birthdays too. To find new exciting foods, Umami adventures across the sea and discovers flavors and spices that are inspiring! She has to share them.
But will the other penguins share her love for these different foods?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Limited culinary options create a path for exploration in this playful tale. Situated on a white snowbank against a deep blue sea, a penguin community eats cold fish at every meal ("For dessert? Cold fish. Your birthday? More cold fish"). When penguin Umami finds her birthday meal to be a fish too far, she raises her fork in defiance, announcing, "If there is more exciting food in this world, I will find it!" Crossing the ocean, she discovers a warm-hued sunbaked coast and streets crowded with animalian vendors and endless new foods; "Umami would eat it all." She samples foods salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and "a taste that shared her name," until encountering a spicy food suggests inspired next steps that take Umami's findings home. Grant's witty oil pastel monoprint and colored pencil art marries technique with expression to illustrate Umami as a happy-belly food bon viveur—sweetly wide-eyed with joy, wonder, and gustatory delight—forging a tasty path in a bountiful world. Ages 3–7.
