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Overview
Charles Reasoner's delicious, die-cut, rhyming board books -- now available in adorable bite-sized morsels (3 1/4 x 6 3/4)to take less of a "bite" out of parents' wallets! What’s a picnic without the ants? Look at them go as they take a bite out of everything from oval olives to jiggling gelatin squares! Charles Reasoner lives in Snohomish, WA.An army of ants enjoys a picnic lunch in Shapes for Lunch!, a Bite board book by Melinda Lilly, illus. by Charles Reasoner. The tall book's die-cut edges make it look as if someone has been snacking on it. Each piece of food is associated with a shape: a circle of bologna, a star-shaped cookie, a gelatin cube. Lively rhyming text follows the ants' culinary adventure.
Editorials
Children's Literature -
A board book about shapes is an excellent idea and this one is both sturdy and appealingly illustrated. Kids will enjoy these pictures. However my own kid-mind yearned for ants with more personality and my adult-teacher mind gave the rhyming text only a C+. It's smart to present food as shapes (e.g., triangular pizza slices and oval olives) but board books are quickly outgrown, after all, and can be justified in only limited numbers. It's hard to wholeheartedly recommend this one.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1998
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pages
32
Format
Board
ISBN
9780843178227