Little Pea
School year: Year 1, Year 2
No. of pages 32
Published: 2015
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book has been graded for interest at 3-5 years.
There are 32 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2015 by Chronicle Books .
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a Chicago-based writer. She is the author of Little Pea, Little Hoot, and several other children's and adult trade books. Jen Corace graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. A New Jersey native, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Rose A. Lewis is the author of numerous children's books, including the New York Times bestseller I Love You Like Crazy Cakes. Jen Corace is the bestselling author-illustrator of Little Pea and many other books.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Buckaroo Book Award
This book was recognised by the Buckaroo Book Award.
Flicker Tale Children's Book Award - Picture Book
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Flicker Tale Children's Book Award.
"Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace strike beautiful balance between story and art in 'Little Pea' (2005), a book that pedagogues might point out teaches basic physics and math while poking fun at picky eaters. This critic prefers to describe it as a family portrait of legumes in which the baby has to eat all his candy in order to get spinach for dessert." The New York Times
A crowd pleaser in the tradition of Mitchell Sharmat's "Gregory, The Terrible Eater" (1980), illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey, this simply told and illustrated episode features both a decidedly atypical family (all head, no body) facing a similar dinnertime issue, and a delicious final twist. Little Pea's generally a happy legume, hanging with friends, rolling down hills, and being catapulted off a spoon by Papa Pea--but meals are always fraught, for Little Pea hates candy, which as you know (you didn't?) is all that peas eat. "If you don't finish your candy, you can't have dessert," says Mama Pea. Negotiating his quota down to five cellophane-wrapped pieces, Little Pea proceeds to choke them down--"Three. Plck. Four. Pleh."--then jumps for joy at dessert's arrival--a heaping bowl of spinach. Expect bursts of hilarity from young listeners, picky eaters or no. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Picky eaters will enjoy the subtle humor of this topsy-turvy tale." School Library Journal