What's a Banana? - Hardcover

Singer, Marilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419721399 ISBN 13: 9781419721397

Publisher: Abrams Appleseed, 2016

Synopsis

What can you do with a banana? You can grip it, unzip it, squeeze it, freeze it— you can even play it like a flute! With a little imagination and a sense of humor, you can transform it into anything! Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with these charming picture books that encourage readers to look at the world in a new—more magical—way.

Also available: What's an Apple?

About this title

About the Author:

Marilyn Singer is an award-winning author of over 100 books for children, including I’m Gonna Climb a Mountain in My Patent Leather Shoes. She lives in Brooklyn.

Greg Pizzoli is the 2014 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award–winning illustrator of The Watermelon Seed. He lives in Philadelphia.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 1—Young children and their pets use their imagination in these rhythmic stories about the fun that can be had with everyday objects like a piece of fruit. Pizzoli gives readers colorful cartoon illustrations that match Singer's simple, rhyming texts. In the first title, children use bananas in a variety of innovative ways: "You can share it./You can wear it—/it's a funny yellow hat!/You can squeeze it./You can freeze it./Please don't throw it at the cat." In the second book, the different ways to eat and play with an apple are described in the same type of singsong rhyme: "You can pick it./You can kick it./You can throw away the core./You can toss it./You can sauce it./You can roll it on the floor." Each selection ends with a proclamation that the item is a fruit and we should eat it, but readers will enjoy the creative uses of the fruit more than the nutritional advice. VERDICT These are recommended additions to any picture book collection, as they will delight parents and young children and catch the interest of newly independent readers.—Kristen Todd-Wurm, Middle Country Public Library, NY

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Appleseed
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1419721399
• ISBN 13: 9781419721397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Pizzoli Greg