LMNO Peas (Peas)

by Keith Baker (Author) Keith Baker (Illustrator)

LMNO Peas (Peas)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Peas
Featuring a range of zippy characters from Acrobat Peas to Zoologist Peas, this delightful picture book highlights a variety of interests, hobbies, and careers--each one themed to a letter of the alphabet. Full color.
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School Library Journal

Starred Review

PreS-Gr 1 Humble green peas provide inspiration in this hilarious, occupation-based romp through the alphabet. Four-inch-high letters on each page serve as an ingenious architectural platform around, above, and inside of which dozens of "pea-ple" swarm in joyful pursuit of myriad types of work. Bouncy, rhyming text introduces the alphabet peas as "acrobats, artists, and astronauts in space, builders, bathers, and bikers in a race," with unpaid "voters and volunteers" receiving their due, too. Baker's inventive details belie the "as alike as two peas in a pod" adage; each and every amusing personalized pea is as unique as a snowflakeand that's the point. The digitally rendered illustrations glow in vibrant, textured colors that boldly leap off the page against a background of ample white space. The sheer fun of the rhythmic text and the large alphabet letters work well for a read-aloud audience, but the busy, engaging details of the peas in their various worker modes are better suited for one-on-one exploration that young children will want to pore over again and again. - Kathleen Finn, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, VT

Copyright 2010 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review

Hundreds of animated green peas tumble through the alphabet in this refreshingly original book. The illustrations are full of vitality and good humor, and the rhyming text never misses a beat. Each large, pastel letter is accompanied by energetic peas introducing themselves (We're acrobats, artists, and astronauts in space). Most letters occupy a single page, but Baker combines some letters the way children repeating a just-learned alphabet often do. The peas are all small and round, but Baker ("Just How Long Can a Long String Be?!") gives them stick legs and arms, along with lively faces and costumes, to demonstrate his inventive view of each letter. To illustrate the letters H and I (We're hikers, inventors, and investigators), two peas climb a branch leaning on the H, a pea in a Sherlock Holmes hat tries to decipher footprints below, and a single pea with a light bulb above his head, smiles at his newly invented wheel that dots the letter I. Baker's after-the-Z surprise ending is a question for readers: Now tell us, please... WHO ARE YOU? Ages 3-7. (Apr.)

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Review quotes

* "This high-energy romp invites repeat visits by young browsers—there's plenty to pore over and giggle about. Delicious!"—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Keith Baker
KEITH BAKER is the creator of many acclaimed picture books, including Who Is the Beast?, Hide and Snake, and most recently, Quack and Count. He enjoys watching all the birds that visit his little green garden in Seattle, Washington.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781416991410
Lexile Measure
390
Guided Reading Level
M
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Publication date
April 06, 2010
Series
Peas
BISAC categories
JUV015010 - Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living | Daily Activities
JUV009010 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Alphabet
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Alphabet
Alphabet books
Occupations
Peas
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South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
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North Carolina Children's Book Award
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