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Peanut Butter Party Including The History, Uses and Future of Peanut Butter
A triumphant celebration of children's favorite food includes recipes, activities, games, songs, plays, jokes, projects, and more all dedicated to the wonders of gooey, sticky peanut butter. By the author of Hooray for Me!
- GenresPicture BooksNonfiction
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
Remy Charlip
47 books36 followersAbraham 'Remy' Charlip (born January 10, 1929) was an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, designer, and teacher.
He studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.
In the 1960s, Charlip created a unique form of choreography, which he called "air mail dances". He sent a set of drawings to a dance company, and the dancers ordered the positions and created transitions and context.
He performed with John Cage, was a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for which he also designed sets and costumes, directed plays for the Judson Poet's Theater, co-founded the Paper Bag Players, and served as head of the Children's Theater and Literature Department at Sarah Lawrence College.
He won two Village Voice Obie Awards, three New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations, and was awarded a six-month residency in Kyoto from the Japan/U.S. Commission on the Arts. He wrote and/or illustrated more than 30 children's books and passed away in San Francisco, California, on August 14, 2012.
He studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.
In the 1960s, Charlip created a unique form of choreography, which he called "air mail dances". He sent a set of drawings to a dance company, and the dancers ordered the positions and created transitions and context.
He performed with John Cage, was a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for which he also designed sets and costumes, directed plays for the Judson Poet's Theater, co-founded the Paper Bag Players, and served as head of the Children's Theater and Literature Department at Sarah Lawrence College.
He won two Village Voice Obie Awards, three New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations, and was awarded a six-month residency in Kyoto from the Japan/U.S. Commission on the Arts. He wrote and/or illustrated more than 30 children's books and passed away in San Francisco, California, on August 14, 2012.
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October 14, 2010
On the left side of each spread is a small illustration of kids at a table, having a funny conversation about what they think about peanut butter. That was the part L liked best. On the right side is suggestions for things to make with peanut butter. He didn't like that so much because most of them involved fruit, his archnemesis. But some of the ideas were very cute.
August 20, 2025
Extremely ironic I even picked up this book because I have a deathly peanut allergy but I love Remy Charlip. However, I think this book was probably more fun to create than to read. It was mostly inspiring to think about how I might pick an ingredient of my own and try to be as creative with it as Remy Charlip was with peanut butter. Also fun to think that I might do some of these activities (with a different ingredient) with friends. I put the book down a couple of times; it was hard for me to read because there was no story line, lots of little text, and the spreads were a bit busy.
Like reading Thirteen, I found that reading this book non-linearly was most enjoyable. After trying to read it the traditional way (page by page, left to right) and failing to stay engaged, I took a split reading strategy for this book where I only looked at the right side spreads on the first read-through, which featured a variety of creative ways to use peanut butter or be inspired by it. Then I went back to the start and only looked at the left side pages which had the comments from children and others about their thoughts on peanut butter. I appreciated the book much more this way. This reading strategy also brought me back to how I used to read as a child which was mostly looking at the pictures first, flipping around, and then going back or zeroing in on certain details at whatever whim I felt. That was fun to re-experience a way of reading that was more loose and not so structured as the traditional way of reading (page by page, left to right, starting at the top and going down).
Contains Charlip’s characteristic playful inventiveness and inclusion of little songs and plays. If you love peanut butter, playing with your food, or want to be inspired by fun crafts you can do with peanut butter, check this book out!
Like reading Thirteen, I found that reading this book non-linearly was most enjoyable. After trying to read it the traditional way (page by page, left to right) and failing to stay engaged, I took a split reading strategy for this book where I only looked at the right side spreads on the first read-through, which featured a variety of creative ways to use peanut butter or be inspired by it. Then I went back to the start and only looked at the left side pages which had the comments from children and others about their thoughts on peanut butter. I appreciated the book much more this way. This reading strategy also brought me back to how I used to read as a child which was mostly looking at the pictures first, flipping around, and then going back or zeroing in on certain details at whatever whim I felt. That was fun to re-experience a way of reading that was more loose and not so structured as the traditional way of reading (page by page, left to right, starting at the top and going down).
Contains Charlip’s characteristic playful inventiveness and inclusion of little songs and plays. If you love peanut butter, playing with your food, or want to be inspired by fun crafts you can do with peanut butter, check this book out!
November 4, 2023
Nah. I am sure some would like it but not us.
Only value for us was illustrations but even they lacked.
Only value for us was illustrations but even they lacked.
November 18, 2011
I skimmed it and it's HILARIOUS on the inside.
August 24, 2012
A picture book format for all kinds of uses of peanut better. Pictures are wonderful illustrations and easy to recreate.
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