Fruits in Suits: A Board Book

by Jared Chapman

Overview

Author/illustrator Jared Chapman’s book Fruits in Suits will tickle little readers’ funny bones as healthy snacks hit the beach.
 
Have you ever seen a banana in a bikini? Or a tangerine in trunks? What about grapes in goggles? In this uproarious follow-up to Vegetables in Underwear, kids will learn that there are many kinds of suits—including suits for swimming, surfing, sunbathing, and scuba diving. But can you wear a business suit to the beach?
 
Fruits in Suits has the same irreverent silliness as Vegetables in Underwear and shows just how much fun swimsuits can be—and how important it is to hold on to them when you jump into the water!
 
Vegetables in Underwear series:
Vegetables in Underwear
Vegetables in Holiday Underwear
Vegetables in Pajamas
Vegetables in Halloween Costumes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419729416
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Pages:	22
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Jared Chapman was born in Louisiana, grew up in Texas, went to college in Georgia, and now calls the piney woods of northeast Texas his home. He is the author/illustrator of Vegetables in Underwear; Steve; Raised by Wolves; and Pirate, Viking & Scientist.

Editorial Reviews

"A delicious assortment of anthropomorphic fruit is decked out in a variety of stylish bathing suits... The minimal text, consisting mostly of quick descriptions of the fruits’ attire, utilizes a limited vocabulary digestible for beginning readers. Meanwhile, the crisp, brightly colored digital cartoon renderings of the fruit and their swimming accoutrements—all set against a stark white background—make this fashion show a delightful feast for the eyes."

Booklist

"A delicious assortment of anthropomorphic fruit is decked out in a variety of stylish bathing suits... The minimal text, consisting mostly of quick descriptions of the fruits’ attire, utilizes a limited vocabulary digestible for beginning readers. Meanwhile, the crisp, brightly colored digital cartoon renderings of the fruit and their swimming accoutrements—all set against a stark white background—make this fashion show a delightful feast for the eyes."

Booklist

2017-01-17
Chapman (Vegetables in Underwear, 2015) is back with digital illustrations featuring anthropomorphic fruits. The front endpapers identify each fruit by name (pineapple, grapefruit, cherry, apple, etc.) as it stands fully clothed, looking uncomfortable, especially a squalling baby pomegranate; the rear endpapers show the same fruits looking comfortable and happy in their swimsuits. Most of the vividly colored fruits shown are common and familiar, and most of them are wearing swimsuits (both the boy and girl kind), but although the all-caps text points out that "there are all kinds of suits," it does not identify any of them by name, just by style or function. Oddly, there is not any mention of the word "swimsuit." The cheerful strawberry narrator, wearing a red-and-green polka-dot swimsuit, explains to the grapefruit wearing a business suit that "If you want to go swimming you need a suit." Although the picture of the baby pomegranate swimming in her "birthday suit" will elicit some giggles, kids may find it difficult to differentiate between a suit "for sunbathing" and a suit "for the shade" (for the shade?), a suit "for scuba" and a suit "for surfing" when worn by a brightly colored cartoon fruit with stick arms and legs. These fruits do not make a large enough splash in the pool; for the best fruit in the basket, check out the old favorite, Sexton Freymann and Joost Elffers' How Are You Peeling? (2004). (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews