Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Colors
By Regan McMahon,
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Cute peas at play help kids learn colors.
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What's the Story?
The cute, busy little peas from LMNO Peas and 1-2-3 Peas are back, and here they're zooming through two-page spreads devoted to different colors and only a few words of text. The fun is in watching all their activity. Each color is introduced in giant block letters, and other things on that spread and the one that follows are yellow: "Yellow buses -- and bumblebees! Yellow sun and ... little green peas." But it's the tiny peas' varied actions throughout each page that will keep readers entertained -- Hula-Hooping, playing baseball, throwing Frisbees, and so on. The book climaxes with black, where "little green guys" -- aliens who look a lot like the little green peas -- float and frolic in outer space.
Is It Any Good?
It's simpler in scope than other books in the series and may pack less of a punch, but kids will still enjoy spending time with the antic vegetables as they zoom about and have fun with each color. Easy-going lessons about examples of each color (blue seas, red autumn leaves, "orange bubbly drinks") will sink in, too.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the colors in their world. What color is your pet, your room, your car? What colors are in your garden?
What's fun about the little green peas? Have you read other books they star in? How does this one compare? Which is your favorite?
Draw a picture with another vegetable showing a bunch of things that are the same color. What other vegetables do you know besides peas?
Book Details
- Author: Keith Baker
- Illustrator: Keith Baker
- Genre: Colors
- Topics: Arts and Dance, Science and Nature
- Book type: Fiction
- Publisher: Beach Lane Books
- Publication date: July 22, 2014
- Publisher's recommended age(s): 4 - 8
- Number of pages: 40
- Available on: Nook, Hardback, iBooks, Kindle
- Last updated: July 12, 2017
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