Go, Go, Grapes!: A Fruit Chant

by April Pulley Sayre (Author)

Go, Go, Grapes!: A Fruit Chant
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Cheer for healthy eating in this fresh and delectable follow-up to "Rah, Rah, Radishes!" Ripe with a raucous rhyming text and bushels of eye-popping farmer's market photos, this picture book celebrates the joys of healthy eating. Full color.
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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1--This companion to Sayre's Rah, Rah, Radishes! (S & S, 2011) introduces another important food group. Short, catchy rhyming phrases line nearly full-page photos of fruits, ranging from the familiar, like apples, oranges, and, of course, grapes, to the more exotic rambutans, lychee, and persimmons. All of them are pictured in baskets or bunches, the way they would look in the supermarket. This approach presents the types of produce as kids are likely to encounter them. The rhythm of the text and the size of the images make this book a good choice for sharing with a group. However, readers should note that sometimes two fruits share a picture, and it isn't always clear which one is which, so a little bit of pre-storytime research might be in order. The book ends with a page on fruit facts and a spread of fruit faces proclaiming: "Fruit is fun!" Kids are bound to agree.--Heather Talty, formerly at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, New York City

Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Review quotes

"Sayre follows up her salute to vegetables (Rah, Rah, Radishes!, 2011) with this rousing chant in favor of fruit.

"Rah, rah, raspberries! / Go, go, grapes! / Savor the flavors. / Find fruity shapes!" With these staccato rhythms and cheerleading words, Sayre sets the stage for one long chant that will have kids clamoring for a fruit snack. Going well beyond (but including) the standard apple, orange, banana, grapes and berries, she entices readers with such exotics as tamarillo, kiwano, guava, rambutan, currant, durian and the wonderfully named dragon fruit. In piles, baskets and boxes brimming with fruit, Sayre shows off the colors and textures, yet she does not shy away from depicting even those specimens that are not completely perfect.... Taken primarily at farmer's markets, mom-and-pop stores and fruit stands and often including hand-lettered signs proclaiming their farm of origin, her photographs send a subtle message to support local farmers and businesses.... Ah, would that readers could pluck Sayre's art right off the page and savor its juiciness....even picky eaters are sure to be tempted."

—Kirkus Reviews, April 1, 2012
April Pulley Sayre
April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre are a husband-and-wife team who lead ecotours and travel extensively to study, photograph, and videotape animals in the rain forests of Panama, Madagascar, and Ecuador. They also speak at schools, botanical gardens, zoos, and nature festivals. Together they wrote a natural history book for adults. Jeff Sayre is an ecologist specializing in native plants and birds. April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning author of more than forty books for children. The Sayres love to brainstorm and laugh together - which is how the idea for ONE IS A SNAIL came about.

Randy Cecil graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is the illustrator of numerous books for children. He says of ONE IS A SNAIL, "It was great fun to figure out how these strange creatures would react in all these different combinations. Crabs seem to have the best time together!"
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781442433908
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Publication date
May 22, 2012
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF024010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diet & Nutrition
JNF014000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Cooking & Food
JNF013020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Colors
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Children's poetry
Poetry
Fruit
Grapes

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