Author: Jim Aylesworth
Illustrator: Stephen Gammell
Publisher: Atheneum books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN #: 0-689-83897-2
Brief Summary: This is a funny book about food and the many adventures the foods find themselves in. The food face struggles like wearing stripes all day as candy canes, getting stuck together as cinnamon buns and hot dogs getting into arguments with hamburgers. At the end of the book you get to make up rhymes of your own!
Evaluation: This is another rhyming book about food that is sure to keep you laughing! Another clever twist on personification shows that food has as many feelings and troubles as we humans do! The illustrations were so different. They were not realistic portrayals of the food by any means. Extra colors were used to make the food look whatever emotion they were feeling at the time and the foods shape was altered in different ways to make them look more like cartoons. Each small poem was so far-fetched that it made the book hilarious. Whatever you do, don't read the book while you are hungry, it will just make you even hungrier!
Rating: 4 out of 5 burgers
This cover actually kind of scares me! I'm sure the poetry isn't that way based on your review, it just looks fierce!
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