YUMMY!: Eating through a Day - Hardcover

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068981755X ISBN 13: 9780689817557

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

From hiding in potato chip bags to eating everything in sight, this family is having a very strange day, in a collection of poetic tales enhanced with bright illustrations. By the creators of School Supplies: A Book of Poems.

About this title

About the Author

Lee Bennett Hopkins is a distinguished poet, writer, and anthologies. His poetry anthologies include School Supplies, which was also illustrated by Renée Flower, and Climb Into My Lap. Both books were selected as "Pick of the Lists" by the American Booksellers Association. Mr. Hopkins's numerous awards and honors include the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for "lasting contributions to children's literature." He lives in Westchester County and Greenwich Village, New York, where he enjoys foods of all kinds.

From Publishers Weekly

Like School Supplies, also by Hopkins and Flowers, this collection of poems centers on a single topic: food. This time, however, the match between art and text seems more frenetic than fitting. Served up under the headings of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert (plus one Snack), this playful assortment from both well-known and new poets focuses on the sensation and delight of eating common foods. Tom Robert Shields, for example, celebrates an orange in a poem that begins, "Perfect morning roundness/ Color from the sun." In a lighter key, David McCord writes, "Eggplant has a lovely color./ As food, though, how could anything be duller?" But the forced hilarity of the loudly colored, geometric illustrations competes for attention with the more gently amusing or contemplative poems. For younger children especially, Flower's blaring, outsize fruit and veggies may simply be confusing. Mangoes as big as watermelons, spaghetti the size of garden hoses and cutlery like gladiator weapons are all tumbled together, most with grinning faces (even the potato chips and Jell-O cubes smile like Miss America contestants). Considering the pleasure the poets take in describing food, it's odd that the visual images are so stylized and cerebral; there's nothing in the art to make the mouth water. Ages 4-up.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 068981755X
• ISBN 13: 9780689817557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Flower Renee