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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780763637088
ISBN number: 0763637084
Label: Candlewick
Manufacturer: Candlewick
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 16
Printing Date: September 26, 2007
Publishing house: Candlewick
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 304472
Studio: Candlewick
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Product Description:
The Kate Greenaway Medal winner is now available in a vibrant pop-up edition, featuring ten pop-up scenes.
Lola is a fussy eater. A very fussy eater. She won’t eat her carrots (until big brother Charlie reveals that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter). She won’t eat her mashed potatoes (until Charlie explains that they are cloud fluff from the pointiest peak of Mount Fuji). There are many, many things Lola absolutely will not eat, including — and especially — tomatoes. Or will she? Kate Greenaway Medalist Lauren Child cooks up a witty treat for picky eaters and the people who love them.
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Lola is a very fussy eater. Carrots are for rabbits and peas are 'too small and too green.' One day, after rattling off her long list of despised foods, she ends with the vehement pronouncement, 'And I absolutely will never not ever eat a tomato.' Not convinced, Lola's older sister Charlie has an idea. She tells Lola that the orange things on the table are not carrots, but 'orange twiglets from Jupiter' and peas are in fact 'green drops from Greenland.' Mashed potatoes, when pitched as 'cloud fluff from the pointiest peak of Mount Fuji' suddenly seem appealing to Lola. And in the end, might she even eat a tomato?
Lauren Child's wacky, expressive sketches of Lola and Charlie (much like those in Clarice Bean, That's Me) are cut out and superimposed on all sorts of textures and patterns from wallpaper to wood. Fuzzy, enlarged photographs of bowls of peas, or fish sticks, or big carrots are pasted right on top to great effect. This funny, endearing look at how children's tastes can be based more on preconception than taste buds is sure to infuse levity into the daily dinner-table struggle. The author's dedication? 'With love from Lauren / who is keen on Marmite / but would rather not eat a raisin.' (Ages 3 to 8) --Karin Snelson
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This story is my grandson's favorite of Charlie and Lolas. I was very impressed with the intricate pop ups on each page----very nice!!
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Get the non-pop up, the story is really wonderful and funny - not a boring read for mom and dad. I'm very disappointed, though; I love this book and we used to get it all the time from the library (non-pop up). We could only find the pop up hardcover online and it doesn't work well at all. The flow is hard to follow, too, and I'm always missing part of the story as I read, and having to go back.
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Charlie has to look after his little sister and give her dinner. Unfortunately, Lola is a very picky eater, and we have to sit through the entire list of things she won't eat. ESPECIALLY not tomatoes.
So he decides to "play a good trick on her" and tell her that all these foods she "won't eat" are really *different* and exotic foods that she's sure to love. (Are you sure you don't want these purple drops? I'll eat them, then, they're very rare!)
Predictably (to us grown-ups), she gobbles all these foods up, and then turns the table on her brother by asking for the tomatoes (These? Are you sure you want THESE?) declaring that they're "moonsquirters" and saying "You didn't think they were tomatoes, did you Charlie?"
What's interesting is that this technique is actually recommended for both child and adult picky eaters. Oh, not the trickery, but the use of pleasant sounding names to make foods sound appealing. (And really, Lola wasn't tricked at all, was she?)
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Cute illustrations and clever text. May not change the mind of a dedicated vegetable-hater, but they'll enjoy it.
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I love this book. It is so cute and even convinces my three-year old to eat foods she doesn't want to!
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