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Elffers, Joost
6 Reviews
(3)
PS
"'Do you love me?' / 'Always, dear.' / 'Do you need me?' / 'Ever near.'" Using spare rhyming text, this book depicts a series of tender parent-child exchanges. Digital images created by a design studio's illustrators show a variety of round-edged "snuzzles," usually touching nose to nose, against monochromatic backgrounds. The reassuring story provides the perfect dose of bedtime comfort.
Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi
(3)
PS
In this clever concept book, Freymann and Elffers use their popular edible sculptures, e.g., giraffes sculpted from bananas and a radish man driving a cucumber car, to teach about shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and opposites. Though some of the fruit-and-vegetable constructions were seen in previous volumes, they still seem fresh as they successfully interpret the various concepts.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(3)
K-3
The latest in the Freymann/Elffers food books presents a puppy carved from a banana, a kitten from two white onions, a whale calf from an eggplant, and so on. The layout is pleasingly crisp and uncluttered, with only one (occasionally two) adorable edible baby animal(s) per page, making the captioned photos accessible to young children as well as those old enough to marvel at the illustrators' craft.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(3)
K-3
Continuing their cottage industry of food-as-art titles, Freymann and Elffers fashion a variety of doggy shapes from cauliflower (the perfect medium for making poodles), radishes, pears, and other produce. The expressive pooches are photographed to humorous effect enacting such terms as "dog paddle" (a dog plays tennis) and "dog show" (dogs watch a TV made from a mushroom).
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(4)
PS
Freymann and Elffers once again conduct a Rose Parade of a picture book, in which every illustration is a photograph of fruits and vegetables. This underwater counting book's brief rhyming text is definitely upstaged by the artwork, but it hardly matters. All eyes will be trained on the amazing seascape, with its ginger root lobsters, Asian eggplant eels, and banana dolphins cavorting above a fava bean kelp bed.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
(3)
K-3
Food artists Freymann and Elffers unleash the latent personalities of fruits and vegetables by carving faces on them, then using their expressive produce to illustrate different emotions. Paired with a catchy, minimal rhyming text, their flashy color photographs of jealous tomatoes, angry oranges, proud bell peppers, and the like add zest to the standard concept book theme.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
6 reviews
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