Fast Food

By Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers

Book Overview

Fruits and vegetables leap off the plate and off the page in Saxton Freymann's fast-paced tribute to things that GO! When you see piles of veggies lying sedately around the corner store, you'd never... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 043911019X
• ISBN13: 9780439110198
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Fun Gift for a family

This is a cute little book. It's always tough to buy gifts for your co-workers because you can easily go so wrong, but I bought this for my boss (who has children) and it was absolutely perfect. The book is adorable, the ideas are so imaginative, and it's a great way to encourage little kids to start healthy eating habits with the imaginative use of vegetables (it makes the vegetables gain so much personality). With all of the junk food marketing targeted at children, this is a refreshing change to see healthy fruits and vegetables presented as an equally enticing alternative.

Love it, love it, love it

These books are amazing and imaginative. I'm sure my kids won't look at fruit and veg in quite the same way again. This has got to be just about as good, if not better then eating your veges!

Clever Cuts

Here is another wonderful little book of fruit and vegetable art that can't fail to enchant adults and children alike. This one is all about vehicles: trains, buses, cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, all created from common vegetables, piloted and ridden by mushroom-, radish-, scallion-, and banana-people, among others. Each page is good for a chuckle and a second look, don't miss cauliflower Santa in a pear sleigh pulled by a ginger reindeer! This is a child's picture book to be sure, for children of all ages. As in all the other books in this series, the illustrations are very creative. Much of the fun is identifying the foods depicted in each scene. Look carefully or you might miss the parsley tree on the edge of the hot balloon page. Children can't help but get caught up in the game. The text is short and snappy, simple rhymes and easy rhythm for reading. It's a book suitable for group reading or quiet time with your toddler on your lap.

GREAT BOOK!!!

My 2 1/2 yr. old son LOVES this book. He never tires of reading it and lucky for us, it's so cute and creative that we never tire of reading it to him. Definitely one of the best books he has! Love this book!!!

Amazingly creative

Fast Food and ALL the books by Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann are incredibly creative! The vivid colors draw the kids in and the imagination they have with food captures their attention! Fast Food makes my kids want to eat their vegetables! As does "Mr. Pompos' Nose" and "The Lonely Sea Horse". They have others too! Not to mention, as an adult, you'll learn what some vegetables and fruits look like that you may have never seen "live" before. It's a great education on "foodology" for the family.