Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem Book

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 read more...
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