Synopses & Reviews
It's time for lunch, and one little mouse is
famished! In fact, he's so hungry that once he starts eating, he can't stop. He sinks his teeth into a crisp
white turnip, gobbles up some
orange carrots, devours an ear of
yellow corn, then tosses back some tender
green peas. He's full, but this mouse keeps on munching until his bulging belly won't hold another bite.
Parents will see their own toddlers in this perky tale, and toddlers won't get enough of the gregarious little mouse. They'll proudly identify the colors of his (and their) favorite foods, and enjoy guessing what fruit or vegetable he'll eat next. Color-savvy readers are sure to spot the rainbow contained in the background pages-- and almost everyone will agree that this is one book about colors that makes the plain old primaries look positively pale!
An ALA Notable Book
Review
"Fleming's feisty mouse peeks out of a hole in the wall and spies a table laden with goodies-a smorgasbord of fruits and vegetables in bold colors. With each turn of the page, the hungry mouse samples one colorful food after another: crisp white turnip, tasty orange carrot, sweet yellow corn, tender green peas. Children will love to guess what food comes next..." --
Booklist"A well designed, joyous romp through food and color." --School Library Journal, starred review
"A beautifully crafted book." --Kirkus Reviews, pointer
"Soup's on in this tummy-tempting concept book." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
"A well designed, joyous romp through food and color." --School Library Journal, starred review
About the Author
Denise Fleming explains that
Lunch combines two of her favorite topics-- color and food. "I wanted to create a color book full of
colors-- bright, bold colors, and lots of them-- not just red, blue, yellow, and green. So I started with a small gray mouse who eats his way through the basic colors (although I admit to sneaking pink in there, too)."
No paint or brushes are used to create the art in this book, nor is Fleming's art a collage. She creates the illustrations as images within handmade paper, a technique called "pulp painting."
Ms. Fleming lives in Toledo, Ohio.