How Are You Peeling? (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf) | Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers |...

How Are You Peeling? (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf) | Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers | A favorite in our house

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	How Are You Peeling? (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf) Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 40 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent, bright, funny, vibrant book

Saxton Freyman writes and illustrates the most extraodinary books. These are anthropomorphic vegetables, but not in the touchy feely care-bear way. These are truly challenging vegetables - and my kids love them. We started off with Dr Pompo (a story of pumpkins and seeing what actually is - kind of ironic really)

The wonderful thing about this is that his vegetables are almost challenging - they have almost Halloweenly mean faces and expressions - but set against the bright backgrounds and light verse, they come out being extremely popular stories with my 3 and 4 year old.

It is a great way of introducing your children to vegetables to, we play with our vegetables like they do in this, making faces on them and making conversations with them, it is a great introduction to play. I would really recommend you get the rest of these books and enjoy them with your children!

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A favorite in our house

We've had this book for many years, and it's still a favorite. Even my 7 year old still picks it up to read now and then. The pictures are sweet, and the intention is authentic. I highly recommend this book. :o)

Creative and exciting little book.

This is an exceptional book that is fun to read. Kids will love putting feelings to the many faces that get created. Freymann created a nice teaching tool that will involve kids as well as parents.

How are you peeling?

This is an awesome book to use for pre-schoolers and primary kids when you are talking about feelings and anger. You can do so many different things with this book. It is good for kids who have trouble matching feelings to faces. The vegetables make it non-threatening, a game. My son also likes to read it just for the fun of it.

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Foods with Moods!

I have two sons -- the younger is expressive and outgoing; the older is reserved, reserved, reserved. When we started reading this book, my younger son would mimic all the pictures, and without knowing the words, he would come up with the emotions. Now both boys do this -- figure out the emotions of the food and imagine conversations among them. We rarely read the text, which while funny and rhyming, doesn't excite me as much as what is coming out of my own children's mouths.

I find it extraordinary that this all came about through supermarket produce, but I'm not looking this gift horse in the mouth.

Buy it especially for the pages on jealousy, and shyness, and comforting one another, and what do you do when you're afraid of something. Also for the look of pride on the face of the "adult" pepper.

Two other great choices for emotions (especially for boys) are "I Love You Because You're You" by Liza Baker and "Llama Llama Red Pajama" by Anna Dewdney -- Llama Llama goes through impatience, frustration, tantrums, fear, and comfort.

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