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Too Pickley! (2012)

by Jean Reidy(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1599906805 (ISBN13: 9781599906805)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

review 1: This book is great because it teaches children that there is nothing wrong with having an opinion about certain foods. It also teaches children that if you do not like something you can go on to the next food. It teaches children how to voice that opinion like saying that it was too spicy or too cheesy.Learning Extension: Let children pretend or bring in food and let them express themselves on how the feel about the new foods.
review 2: 1. Rating: 52. A book review by Children's Literature says, "The winning team that addressed the frustrations of the fashion-fussy in Too Purpley! returns here to catalog the complaints of the picky eater. After first bellowing, "I'm hungry!" the little boy narrator rejects a variety of food offerings as "too wrinkly" (raisins),... more "too squishy" (a plump tomato), "too slimy" (snails), and "too slurpy" (soup). Other foods are rejected for their fruitiness, fishiness, stringiness, crunchiness, stickiness, and other unacceptable features, until he somehow manages to find something he's willing to eat (unidentified in text or art, but inviting enjoyable reader speculation). A mere 47 well-chosen words add up to a clever and lively text, complemented by Leloup's bright, bold, exuberant pictures that supply plenty of action and expression to supplement Reidy's list of food grievances, all too comically familiar to the despairing parents and caregivers of picky eaters everywhere."3. The colorful two-page spreads in this book are just great. It is predictable book about a boy that is picky, picky, picky. He doesn’t like raisins because they’re “too wrinkly” and he doesn’t like spaghetti because it’s “too stringy,” lollipops are “too licky” and pizza is “too cheesy.” He’s got an excuse for why he doesn’t like multiple foods that I think a lot of students can relate to. I definitely recommend this for teachers of kindergarteners for a read-aloud and for beginning readers in first grade. less

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