Little Pea
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Jen Corace
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Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Jen CoraceBrand: Chronicle Books
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-17
ISBN: 081184658X
Number of pages: 36
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Book Review: Green giant.........
Summary: 4 Stars
This little book is in it's 2nd year in my classroom.
Today it was chosen as the read-a-loud by one of my newest students. At the same time as I read, back in the room, was a child from my previous year visiting during his recess. People tell me he is low, he recalled the story completely even though it was a year ago. So with a very nice summary of the story, that a little pea does not like candy, the food of the peas, he informed my new class just what's what in this text. He's got to eat 5 whole pieces to get dessert. And as other reviewers have so clearly stated, he's waiting for his dessert, spinach, of course.
At 5 and 6 this appears to be just funny on its face. There seems to be no need to dress it up in anything else. And it does give you the opportunity to see if the children have come to a point in their language development (I teach 2nd language kids) to get the twist and think about bargaining with parents over food.
Not so many of my kids have that issue. They are clearly there to get the free breakfast and lunch. They are served as if making it easy on the adults is all that matters, gross corn dogs, fake meat hamburgers, frozen pizza, chicken refuse nuggets. Nothing is hand made and it's depressingly too often eaten really well, gratefully, cheerfully by kids who don't seem to be able to afford pickiness. While I love this book and their life enthusiasm, I also then thought they might not relate to the book other than to think eating candy as dinner odd or hilarious. But they seem to be telling me they recognize this story line from TV. More than life they lead. (Like my personal kids were once introduced to "scared of the dark" by TV- thanks world). It's funny, but a lot of the kids also love spinach, and quite a few have parents bringing it home from field jobs harvesting it. Most cannot afford too much fresh stuff like pea pods. We can't afford to explore bringing it to them from the fields like schools "up the road" due to cuts and the dull dark haze of loss of imagination and caring enough to solve the issues ( in the other world that's likely driven by confident affluent "my kid" parents demanding it for some and finding energy and verbiage to get it "done").
Oh well, darling, tender illustrations.Cute-I'd think pleasing to three/four year olds...a quickie to read.
Summary of Little Pea
If Little Pea doesn't eat all of his sweets, there will be no vegetables for dessert! What's a young pea to do? Children who have trouble swallowing their veggies will love the way this pea-size picture book serves up a playful story they can relate to.Social Skills Books
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