Winner of the Smarties Prize Bronze Award.

How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? In the case of the narrator of this counting poem, the answer is a lot! Count from one to ten and learn the names of some Caribbean fruits, and find out what happens after eating a cocktail of mangoes, bananas and more.

Valerie Bloom's Fruits is a Caribbean counting poem full of sumptuous illustrations by David Axtell, the creator of We're Going on a Lion Hunt. The rhyming text will help children learn to count whilst exploring the many fruits of the Caribbean.

This book was recognised by the Nestle Smarties Book Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 1-4 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Pan Macmillan .

Valerie Bloom was born in Jamaica and came to England in 1979. One of the UK's finest poets for children, she has performed extensively in both Britain and the Caribbean in schools, universities and theatres. A brilliant performance poet, Valerie has also written a novel, Surprising Joy, and two picture books. Karen Wallace has written 60 books for children. Her book Think of an Eel won the Kurt Maschler award, the Times Educational Supplement Award and, in the US, the Parent's Choice Gold Award and the Blue Ribbon Award. Karen also writes for children's television. She lives in Herefordshire. The Illustrator David Axtell is the winner of the Smarties prize for Fruit. He lives in Cornwall.