Retired after 32+ years as an elementary librarian, I really miss the joy of bringing together the right book with the right reader at the right time. Labels: Counting Books, Numbers-Fiction (Ages 2-5) Totally ap-pea-ling!" quips Kirkus.Īnd for a perfect preschool pairing, there's a taste of LMNO Peas here. Families are sure to devour Baker's latest winner. Thanks to Keith Baker, kids, teachers, and parents will find both of these titles perfectly pea-chy, and youngsters will never think of that much maligned veggie in the same way again. (For example, sharp-eyed adults will note the fab four " Peatles" and a glitzy " Peayonce'" putting in an appearance among the peas. Baker's page design, with all bright-white pages (except for the 60s, a darker decade!) showing off his large pastel numerals as well as the numbers spelled out, works perfectly as a counting primer, but as in the earlier book, the antics of his anthropomorphic stick-limbed peas will charm the eye of youngsters, who will wish to to pea-ruse each page re- peatedly, while his pea-puns have their own wry ap- PEA-l to the adult who reads both books aloud. While it is a temptation to pun that this latest pea-saga isn't a patch on his alphabet outing, these numerical peas will doubtless please the preschool crowd. The PEAS are back in Keith Baker's re-PEA-t ap pearance of his best-selling pedagogic peas, introduced in LMNO Peas, this time teaching numbers in his new 1-2-3 Peas (Beach Lane, 2012).
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