Fruit: Delicious - Nutritious

by Sara Anderson

Each page in Sara Anderson's colorful 32-page board book Fruit features a mouthwatering morsel rendered in her signature cut-paper style, from cantaloupe to grapes... and 22 more fruits. Resident of Seattle's 108-year-old Pike Place Market for more than 30 years, Anderson lovingly handpicked each piece of produce from farmers' stands as models. The fruit names rhyme in sequence, making the book a lively Bananas-cherries-grapefruit-lime / kumquat-kiwi-Eat 'em up time! Look for the companion book Vegetables as well as the Spanish-English edition Frutas/Fruit. Delicious and nutritious! (Baby to preschool)

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Food

32 pages, Board Book

First published August 16, 2007

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Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely love this book and its companion book, Vegetables.

There are so many kids' books that subtly or not-so-subtly promote junk food that to find one teaching about healthy food that is also actually a good book is awesome.

I love the art style--artsy enough to be art, but realistic enough to familiarize the kid with different fruits.

I like the simplicity and the rhymes.

And I like saying "Eat 'em up time!"

[Lillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great introduction to fruit. My mama loves fruit and ate lots of it while pregnant with me (especially mango, bananas, pineapple, apples, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, oranges, etc). My papa especially loves bananas. I can't wait to try them!

[Dave Lester · Rating 2 out of 5]

This very simplistic book with mediocre artwork features various pieces of fruit that children can identify. No story or anything. Just average pictures of fruit.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Along with the companion book, Vegetables, these are my twin toddlers favorite books right now and I don't mind reading them over and over. It's not often you find a board book that has been laid out so thoughtfully and artistically. I would happily frame the pictures and hang them on my walls if I could find the prints. The color schemes, texture, shading, and details of each illustration make them very artistic compositions. I think you can learn a lot about art by studying the illustrations.

The rolling verse is lovely too. Very well written. I think my family has the whole thing memorized now. This is the perfect kind of book for a baby/toddler that is just beginning to say a lot of words and looking for labels for everything. They can't handle lots of words on a page but one word that clearly labels the image above it is perfect.

I've also noticed these books inspire my kids to eat more produce. Yea!

All this makes this a classic in our home.

[Kelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was cuter than I'd anticipated.
My newborn loves to stare at these pictures.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple but a tad long board book with a picture of a fruit and it's name. A few pages feature snappy words.

[Joan Arbogast · Rating 4 out of 5]

super simple introduction to lots of fruits