Baby Food FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
The food-becomes-animal mavericks who brought you the popular Dog Food and How Are You Peeling? carve another delicious charmer with this adorably inspired spin on babies.
Using their technique of transforming fruits and vegetables into cute infants, Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers have created a treasure full of puppies, kittens, baby giraffes, and more. Vividly colored backgrounds and simple designs showcase the trove of babies, such as a cauliflower lamb looking innocent and curious and a sweet-potato baby alligator putting its head down with a wide grin and bright eyes. Other babies include a surprised baby hippo, a wee radish mouse, a peanut owlet, and a kiwi baby monkey, but the most impressive baby is the peachy human toddler at the end, crawling along happily and smiling broadly.
A marvelous addition to their (already) super-sweet work, Baby Food will touch your inner soft spot and leave you totally cooing for more. Joost and Elffers's creations are just the thing for learning basic words and animals, making object learning a pure treat for kids and a breezy, amusing read for adults. With this cornucopia of critters tickling your fancy, you'll surely do a double take the next time you're in the produce aisle. Matt Warner
ANNOTATION
Presents vegetables and fruits carved into the shapes of different baby animals, including a bunny, a piglet, a whale calf, a bear cub, and others.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
A menagerie of animals decorate the gloriously colored pages of BABY FOOD. Animals ingeniously carved and cut from a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables, of course--what else would you expect from the talented Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers, who brought us How Are You Peeling?! A Chinese eggplant becomes a little penguin and 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! They make great winter holiday and Easter gifts for grown-ups too.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
From the team behind How Are You Peeling? and Dog Food comes another delightful book based on photos of fruit and vegetable carvings, Baby Food by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers. From a wide-eyed piglet carved out of an orange to a whale calf fashioned from an eggplant, these baby animal portraits are both clever and cute. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature - Joan Kindig, Ph.D.
Have you ever looked at a cloud and seen an image in it? Have you ever picked up a piece of fruit and thought you saw a face? Children's book creators Freymann and Elffers certainly have, and they have taken it a step further and put together a delightful book full of whimsical animals. In their latest book, the authors have taken small pieces of fruit and vegetables and created the wackiest group of animals you are ever likely to see. The mouse may be fashioned out of a couple of radishes but he is completely recognizable as a mouse. Using pears and tomatoes, avocados and bananas, and numerous other fruits and veggies, the kings of "food as art" have fashioned some of the most imaginative creatures: a baby alligator, a baby hippo, a baby octopus, and a tadpole among other animals and insects. The name of each animal is listed on the page which makes the book nice for beginning readers to use for acquiring new sight words. Children have great imaginations and a book like this will start their imaginations swirling. 2003, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, Ages 4 to 6.
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 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.
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