Product Description

Although he loves to help Grandpa pick fresh fruit, Oliver will not eat any until one day Mom prepares something very special in a big glass bowl.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1059727 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2-Oliver enjoys helping his grandfather grow and pick fruit from the garden, but even though he sings the praises of the bountiful produce, he won't eat any of it. Puzzled, his mother just smiles and keeps on trying to entice him to taste fruit, not just talk about it. That is until Grandpa comes to visit and enlists Oliver's aid in making a big, colorful fruit salad; it is so irresistible that the boy consumes three bowls full. Acrylic illustrations are bold, bright, and full of childlike appeal. A suitable selection for finicky eaters.
Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Ages 3^-7. Fussy Oliver, fresh from his appearance in Oliver's Vegetables (1995), has learned there's more to food than French fries, but he's still pretty picky. When his mother offers him canned pears and fruit juice, he can't help but remember the fruit in his grandfather's garden. A trip to the grocery story with Mom seems to be the solution, until droll Oliver admits that what he really liked was helping Grandpa, not eating fruit. Fruit salad, however, which he makes with Mom and his grandparents, turns out to be a different story. The straightforward text is personalized with simple dialogue that should make reading aloud fun, and Bartlett's sturdy, unbordered double-page-spread paintings, in a style so unaffected that it resembles children's own artwork, are a rainbow of fruit colors--strawberry red, lemon yellow, lime green, and more. Great for lap sharing or use with small groups. Stephanie Zvirin

Review
The straightforward text is personalised with simple dialogue that should make reading aloud fun, and Bartlett's sturdy, unbordered double-page spread paintings, in a style so unaffected that it resembles children's own artwork, are a rainbow of fruit colors - strawberry, red, lemon, yellow, lime green, and more. Great for lap sharing or use with small groups. -- Booklist (1998) A friendly, round-headed cast with pin-dot blue eyes and broad smilles introduce the tasty possibilities of fresh fruit withour ever dropping the vaguest hint of (shh!) nutrition, and the luscious, sunshiny palette of Bartlett's acrylic paintings will set the taste buds tingling. How about this juicy selection just before snack time? -- Bull Cent Child Book (1998)

Customer Reviews

Try it, you'll like it!!
What a wonderful book that shows how to encourage a child to try something new. It also helps to realize that a lot of children compare what they do in one place to another. The illustrations are very colorful and bright. A reader could almost read the story using the pictures. Read and enjoy!