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Awards and honors for Little Pea:
Book Sense Children's Pick, Summer 2005
Kirkus, Starred Review
International Reading Association's (IRA) Children's Choices 2006
Wyoming Buckaroo Award nomination
North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award nomination
Boston Mayor Tom Menino's ReadBoston program selected Little Pea as the best read-aloud book of the year
PlanetEsme.com's DON'T MISS LIST 2005

Little Pea

By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrated by Jen Corace

8 x 8 in; 36 pp ; full color throughout, ages 3 and up
Hardcover
Published in February, 2005
ISBN 081184658X
ISBN13 9780811846585

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$12.99  

Reviews
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

Author Info
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a Chicago-based writer and Mama Pea. She is the author of Encyclopedia of Our Ordinary Life. This is her first children's book.

Jen Corace grew up in New Jersey where she spent a lot of time in her bedroom, drawing, and scheming. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration, she can still be found in Rhode Island, drawing and scheming the day away.

Quotes

"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