Product Description

A menagerie of animals spring off the pages of BABY FOOD.  Animals ingeniously carved and cut from a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables, that is---what else would you expect from the talented Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers, who brought us HOW ARE YOU PEELING?!  An eggplant becomes a little penguin as a red pepper transforms into a baby hippo.  A turnip becomes a baby duck and a cauliflower a sheep.

Parents, babies, and new moms and pops will love to share these animal babies---especially in the new board book size as cute as the pictures themselves. Open up and say, "Awww!"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41547 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 24 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780439110211
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
Imagine a lamb with a cauliflower body. A baby mouse made of radishes. A yellow-pepper bunny and a lemon bear cub. Yes, Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers--the creators of How Are You Peeling?, Dog Food, and more--are back, this time constructing baby animals out of fruits and vegetables. Each page features a crisp photograph of an adorable baby creature creatively crafted from produce, contrasted with a bold, solid-color backdrop, and identified by name (puppy, kitten, baby alligator, etc.). Children will learn the unusual names of various baby animals (kangaroo joey, seal pup, spiderling, owlet) while they're giggling at the notion of an onion kitten or potato duckling. You'd have to be made of a very hard vegetable indeed to deny the charms of a tiny peanut owl or a kiwi monkey. Irresistible! (Baby to preschool) --Karin Snelson

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3-Freymann and Elffers return with more whimsical fruit and vegetable creatures. This time they depict a variety of baby animals from the familiar chick, duckling, and kitten to the more unusual seal and armadillo pups. Of course the book's real fascination lies in the authors' ability to carry off such transformations as a radish into a spiderling and an eggplant into a whale calf. The clean layout with clearly labeled animals positioned against bright, colorful backgrounds enhances the visual appeal. Older children may want to try their hand at their own creations. While not an essential purchase, this book encourages readers to view familiar objects in new ways-and it's very funny.
Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
PreS-Gr. 1. There's no end in sight to the inspiration Freymann and Elffers, the creators of How Are You Peeling? (2000) and Dog Food (2002), can find at a farmer's market. The fruit-and-veggie sculpture concept may have been off the vine for a while now, but the authors' newest theme--baby animals--shows off the team's ingenuity to full advantage. Fashioned from the plumpest of produce and given wide-eyed expressions with black-eyed peas and a few artful nicks of a knife, these freshly picked critters are as darling as they come, as well as much more appealing than the human toddler pictured on the last page. This is clearly intended as a companion to Dog Food, but the text is more straightforward and child friendly. Even if the novelty factor goes over little ones' heads, the exclamations of delight from older children will surely prove contagious. Jennifer Mattson
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Customer Reviews

Daughter is addicted to this book!
My 14 mo. old ADORES this book. It's the only one she really wants to read, and she would flip through it for hours at a time if we let her. She loves it so much, we have to hide it from her sometimes so we can get her to go to sleep at night. Wonderful, wonderful book!

Such a clever book!
We love the entire series of these food books. The photography is so well done and the idea of turning food objects into animals is so clever. My daughter has loved this book for several years now and it is a treasure to her. I truly enjoy looking at it with her because it is so creatively done.

Lover of kid's books
If you love the humor of How are you Peeling? you are't going to be able to resist the adorable baby animals in this book. I plan on buying this book for all future babyshowers and 1st birthdays.