Food Play

By Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers

Book Overview

In 1996 Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann introduced Play With Your Food , a groundbreaking collection of photographs featuring playfully carved fruits and vegetables. With more than a million copies sold and an award-winning series under their belts, the pair have proven the old adage wrongyou really should play with your food. Now, for the first time, Food Play compiles more than 300 of the very best images from a decade of astonishingly imaginative publishing. This compact collection will surprise and delight both fans of the series, and newcomers to the enchanting world of Food Play .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811857050
• ISBN13: 9780811857055
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 2

Customer Reviews

LOVED THIS DELIGHTFUL BOOK!

FOOD PLAY is an unique and adorable book suitable for any age person. My grandchildren to whom I gave the book were amazed and tickled by the expressiveness of the food faces and I was astonished at the imagination that created them. The fact that collectively several of them also tell stories is also great fun. I recommend this book for everyone.

Fun book

My 2 1/2 year old son who has severe food aversions and will not touch any fruits or vegetables other than bananas and french fries, is absolutely delighted by this book. He looks at it almost every day and loves to name all of the fruits and vegetables and what each is meant to look like. I'm very impressed with it as well. It's fun for any age. I highly recommend it.

Cheerful book!

This is so amazing! Each page made me smile! They are works of art!

Outstanding creativity

"Food Play", the new book by Saxton Freymann and Joost Ellfers, presents a look at fruits and vegetables in a way that many have never quite seen them before. Who ever knew these tasty treats had a side life full of a range of emotions? From frightening pumpkins to silly scallions, prepare to laugh out loud from page one right to the end. I was delighted to have read the original "Play With Your Food" when it was published a few years ago but this new offering takes fruit and vegetable recreation (or better yet, "re-creation") to a new level. We're treated to a pear dog holding a squash umbrella with an asparagus handle and a French poodle made completely out of cauliflower....right down to the dog bone. Yet it is the action figures that really stand out. An embarrased mushroom shows shock when he catapults his fellow mushroom off its seesaw seat...the seesaw itself being a stalk of rhubarb. And two strawberries, approaching one another somewhat amorously, end up kissing. It's enough to want to adopt them! "Food Play" is great for all ages and I highly recommend it. I hope the authors are working on a sequel to give us yet many more reasons to laugh.

Food Play

Great book for young children. The pictures are cute and fun to look at. I got this for my autistic son as he likes these Elffers and Freymann books.