Hap-Pea Valentine's Day

by Keith Baker, Keith Baker (Illustrator)

Overview

Keith Baker’s New York Times bestselling peas get a Valentine’s Day spin in this picture book filled with lots of loving and giving moments for the peas to share!

It’s Valentine’s Day, and there are lots of hap-pea hearts for the peas to give away. From frilly hearts and silly hearts to growing hearts and glowing hearts, there’s plenty of love to go around. Will you join the peas in giving away some valentines? Any kind will do... Every hap-pea heart says, “I Love You!”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665940221
Publisher:	Beach Lane Books
Publication date:	12/03/2024
Series:	The Peas Series
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	166,373
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Keith Baker has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, Little Green Peas, Hap-pea All Year, LMNO Pea-quel, My Octopus Arms, and No Two Alike. He lives in Washington state.

Keith Baker has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, Little Green Peas, Hap-pea All Year, LMNO Pea-quel, My Octopus Arms, and No Two Alike. He lives in Washington state.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2024

PreS-Gr 3—A Valentine's Day book that illustrates a variety of "heart" vocabulary words to celebrate the holiday. On February 14, the peas celebrate love with many kinds of hearts, including locket hearts, candy hearts, chocolate hearts, and more. No matter the type of heart, they all express "I love you!" To maximize the introduction of new vocabulary words, each page is full of various illustrated hearts with the little peas hiding all throughout the background for children to find. Photoshop illustrations have a dreamy and romantic watercolorlike style and are saturated with jewel-tone reds, pinks, and purples that invite readers to find the peas and see how they are all celebrating the holiday. Although the illustrations seek to define the words, some—"blurry," "ascend"—feel conceptually ambitious for younger children. Overall, this is a solid entry to the series that expresses love and holiday themes for little ones keen on learning more. VERDICT A solid vocabulary or holiday book with repeat-read value for bulking up holiday titles.—Jessica Bushore

School Library Journal

2024-09-28
Baker’s industrious, pea green micro-veggies return to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

This cheerful tale focuses on celebration, cooperation, friendship, and heart-shaped everything: “pocket hearts” (the stitching on jeans), “chalky hearts” drawn on sidewalks, the “fluttery hearts” of butterflies’ wings, and “pizza hearts,” of course. (These peas are enthusiastic, opportunistic snackers.) While the rhyming text can be choppy in spots, Baker’s clever visual interpretations of the theme have plenty of compensatory charm as these busy legumes prepare—and share—their exuberant messages of love. They drive construction equipment up a mountain of candy hearts, tend a plot of heart-shaped flowers in the glow of a (heart-shaped) sun, excavate pink cookies from a gigantic jar, and load brimming bags of valentines into heart-patterned hot air balloons, scattering joy below. Sharp-eyed kids will spy not only a returning ladybug, but also a winged, pea-bodied Cupid who appears throughout, aiming to spread even more love. The peas have various hairstyles and wear different accessories, including hats and eyeglasses; one uses a wheelchair. Though all the peas are green, they vary somewhat in shading. A final illustration depicts Cupid, mission accomplished, peacefully slumbering on a pillowy cloud.

An amusing valentine confection, delivered in high style.(Picture book. 2-7)

Kirkus Reviews