Product Description

Kids will love this board book about Bob the Tomato as he shares ways to help others all day long.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136280 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 12 pages

From the Back Cover
Teach your child learn to help others!] In this delightfully fun, rhyming board book, Bob the Tomato encourages his friends, Larry and Joe, to lend a helping…hand? Ok, Veggies don’t have hands…but kids do…and Bob wants to help them learn the importance of helping others! When Joe’s mom breaks her big left toe, Bob decides to help. Larry and Joe offer their "superhero" help, too, but that’s not exactly what Bob has in mind. Kids will discover right along with Larry and Joe that everyone can be a superhero if you lend a helping hand!

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About the Author
Mike Nawrocki is co-creator of the popular series, VeggieTales™. Acting as the voice of Larry the Cucumber, and several other Veggie characters, Mike also writes, directs, and contributed to the development of the 3-2-1 Penguins™ series. He resides in Chicago, IL with his wife and 2 children.;Cindy Kenney has worked as senior managing editor for Big Idea Inc. (Veggie Tales) for more than five years. She has published more than twenty-five children's books, five curriculum programs, multiple stories and articles, and served as a creative consultant to many. She currently lives in Illinois with her husband, Jim, and two sons, Andy and Jimmy.

Customer Reviews

Fun & Teaching
Simply book for young children to hep teach them how to help out others.

Bob Lends a Helping . . . Hand?
ISBN 031070538x - VeggieTales in general appeal to me because they manage to teach Christian ideas without dragging Christianity into it, which gives them a broader audience. This title fails in that.

Bob has promised his neighbor that he will do some chores around her house while she is at the doctor's for a broken toe. Bob enlists the help of his friend Larry and his neighbor's son, Joe. Larry, eager to help, begins to suggest grand, super-hero things that he can do to help, but Bob explains that it's just some simple chores, like dusting and raking, that need doing. Rather than feeling disappointed at the ordinary work, Larry realizes that even doing the little things shows love.

Authors Cindy Kenney and Mike Nawrocki manage to reach the last page before invoking their god ("To be god's superhero, simply lend a helping hand!"), but it's a disappointment for me because I think the reference automatically limits their reach. Non-believers will miss out on the lesson, which is a good one, because they won't want the book due to the religious reference. The illustrations are fantastic - bright, bold and fun - but I can't credit the illustrator because none is named on the book.

The thick board book pages will stand up to some rough handling. The pages are glossy and wipe clean of most small messes easily.

- AnnaLovesBooks

Very mediocre
Another disappointing book from Veggie Tales. Peas and Thank you was such a treat. Guess we just got lucky the first time. Nothing else we have ordered has even come close.