Granny Root Grows Fruit

by Deborah Chancellor, Julia Groves (Illustrator)

Overview

Follow Granny Root as she spreads compost, plants seedlings, and picks fruit in this stylish and fact-filled picture book, part of the Follow My Food series that looks at the ways different foods are produced.

Blueberries, raspberries, apples, and pears—they all come to the table after months of hard work growing them in the ground, on bushes, or in trees. Granny Root Grows Fruit is a simple but effective way to teach children (and adults!) about the process of growing berries and fruit. Featuring attractive collage-style art, the book also includes a matching game, a display of different types of fruits, berries, and nuts, and a recipe using fruits and berries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662670695
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	07/16/2024
Series:	Follow My Food
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Deborah Chancellor is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults. Her books cover a range of topics from educational to biographies to cookbooks. Her work has been shortlisted for several honors, including the Little Rebels Award and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award.

Julia Groves is an illustrator with a focus on cut-paper and printmaking illustrations for children's books. Her first book Rainforest received a Banks Street Outstanding Merit, made the New York Times Best Books of the Year list, and was longlisted for the Cogan Biodiversity Picture Book.

Editorial Reviews

"Berries, apples, and pears, yum! With the help of the child narrator, the aptly named Granny Root grows berry bushes and fruit trees, harvests when it’s time, and then eats or preserves the bounty. This entry in the author’s four-book Follow My Food series provides a step-by-step account of fruit growing with simple words and colorful, stylized pictures. This concise U.K. import will satisfy young listeners or early readers curious about where their food comes from; it’s also a lovely example of intergenerational bonding... (g)entle encouragement for the youngest of gardeners."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2024-04-05
Berries, apples, and pears, yum!

With the help of the child narrator, the aptly named Granny Root grows berry bushes and fruit trees, harvests when it’s time, and then eats or preserves the bounty. This entry in the author’s four-book Follow My Food series provides a step-by-step account of fruit growing with simple words and colorful, stylized pictures. Granny and the youngster prepare the soil, plant berry bushes and seedlings, prune, and weed. Putting nets over the strawberry plants keeps birds away. In summer, Granny waters, and the two watch and wait until the fruit is ripe. The end of summer means it’s time for apples and pears; they bite into the fruit, bake some of it into pies, and preserve the rest as jam. This concise U.K. import will satisfy young listeners or early readers curious about where their food comes from; it’s also a lovely example of intergenerational bonding. Backmatter includes a matching activity, further information (with a reminder that eating local fruit in season is better for the planet), and a page that lists four kinds of fruit (“berries,” “stone fruit,” “pome fruit,” and “dry fruit”), with examples. Finally, the book has a recipe for fruit salad—enough for the whole family. Granny and the child are brown-skinned.

Gentle encouragement for the youngest of gardeners. (Informational picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews