Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a Chicago-based writer. She is the author of the bestselling books Duck! Rabbit!, Exclamation Mark!, and the beloved Little Pea and Little Oink, and the recent I Wish You More, as well as many other books for children and adults. Visit her at www.whoisamy.com. Jen Corace received her BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and has illustrated a number of children’s books, including Little Pea, Little Hoot and Little Oink, along with Chronicle’s Telephone, an ALA Notable Book.
"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
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
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