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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #820835 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-29
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Amazon.co.uk Teacher Review
Fruits is an excellent, vibrantly illustrated book that was the winner of the Smarties Prize Bronze Award. It is cleverly written by Valerie Bloom and beautifully illustrated by David Axtell.

The rhyming words are full of rhythm:

Seven Mangoes! What a find! / The smaddy who left them really kind / One fe you an' six fe me / If you want more, climb the tree.

("Smaddy" means "somebody" and "fe" means "for".)

The writings contains lots of humour, too:

Three sweet-sop, well I jus' might give one o' them a nice big bite. / Cover up the bite, jus' so, sis, / Then no-one will ever notice.

(A sweet-sop is a very sweet fruit which has a rough outside and white inside with black stones.)

The book will appeal to a wide age-range of children, from those learning to count and young enough still to be read to, to those reading for themselves and able to use the glossary of unfamiliar words. "How much fruit can one girl eat in a day? You'd be amazed!" The poems offer a great opportunity to interest usually reluctant readers with the unusual subject matter. --Susan Naylor

Synopsis
How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? Count along from one to ten as you see her eat a cocktail of mangoes, bananas, jackfruit, guineps and other exotic Caribbean fruits.

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Customer Reviews

A great read for all
I bought this book for 2 children last Christmas, and they still say thank you every time I speak to them. It's a fun read both for the child, and the adult reading with them. The granny of one of the little ones loves it as it gives her a chance to talk about back home.

A must for all Jamaican toddlers
We found this book to be our daughter's favorite bedtime reading. A thoughtfull, well written and illustrated book, should be a classic for all children especially jamaican children. Highly recommended.