Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise

by Leo Landry

Overview

Welcome to the world’s smallest circus—starring the Tender Tiny Peas—in this charming, one-of-a-kind fantasy that reveals there can be much more to a child’s dinnertime than meets the adult eye.

This is the perfect book for every parent who has ever tried to get a toddler to eat and every toddler who has refused.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547561882
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/02/2005
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Master minimalist Leo Landry once again shares the power of secret worlds in this unique fantasy for young children. A love of the moon and all things Apollo originated in Leo’s childhood. He says he has distinct memories of playing a recording of the first moon landing while jumping off the front porch. He and his family live in Easton, Massachusetts.
  Leo Landry is the author and illustrator of Grin and Bear It, Eat Your Peas, Ivy Louise, and Space Boy. He lives with his wife and daughter in Easton, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.leolandry.com/.

Editorial Reviews

Landry's (The Snow Ghosts) sprightly story introduces an imaginative-and clearly not ravenous-towheaded toddler whose mother drops a spoonful of peas on her high-chair tray. As the child watches the diminutive veggies roll, they sprout arms, legs and smiley faces and proceed to form a pyramid. A spotlight shines on a pea wearing a top hat, who presents "the amazing, stupendous Tender Tiny Peas!" Jumpin' Dave does a high dive into Ivy Louise's drinking cup, another pea with comically bulging arm muscles lifts a barbell and several others demonstrate pea-upon-pea balancing acts, performed by "those super-snappy, roly-poly acrobats." When the ringmaster announces the tiny beings' exit, guess who obliges? But contrary to some youngsters' expectation that she will actually swallow these affable entertainers, the gal finds another way to help them offstage. With well-balanced servings of minimal, snappy text and spare watercolor-and-pencil illustrations, Landry serves up an appetizing sliver of a tale, which parents will hope does not plant ideas in youngsters' heads. Ages 2-6. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-K-Ivy Louise is busy with her dinner. On her high-chair tray are some Oatey-O's and a spoonful of peas. As she watches, the peas form a pyramid, and a small green ringmaster introduces "the amazing, stupendous Tender Tiny Peas!" The diminutive vegetables entertain the child with their circus act while her unseen parents encourage her to "eat your peas." Everything the performers need for their stunts is already on the tray: the cup for the high dive, the Oatey-O's for the weight lifter, and the blocks for the acrobats. All of this leads up to a death-defying, surprise ending. Landry's watercolor-and-pencil illustrations are simple and uncluttered, but very effective, enabling readers to focus on the action. The Tender Tiny Peas are framed by curved lines and borders that emphasize the circus theme, and dramatic colors enhance their performances. This book is a great storytime choice for small groups or as a one-on-one read-aloud. Children will want to know what happens tomorrow night when Ivy Louise has bananas.-Elaine Lesh Morgan, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

"The small, square design is a neat but ample canvas for the pea-sized acrobatics, and Ivy Louise, a daffier variant of a Joan Walsh Anglund child, is a benevolently godlike participant-observer in the fun. The watercolors, led by the fresh spring green of the "super-snappy, roly-poly" peas, are a veritable Easter basket of pastel shades." Horn Book

"What little ones will enjoy is the fantasy mischief in the pencil-and-watercolor pictures, and the funnywords about "super-snappy, roly-poly acrobats." Best of all is the small child's secret world, which adults know nothing about." Booklist, ALA

"Landry’s watercolor-and-pencil illustrations are simple and uncluttered, but very effective, enabling readers to focus on the action. The Tender Tiny Peas are framed by curved lines and borders that emphasize the circus theme, and dramatic colors enhance their performances. This book is a great storytime choice for small groups or as a one-on-one read-aloud. Children will want to know what happens tomorrow night when Ivy Louise has bananas." School Library Journal

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