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BLACKBERRY BANQUET
A Feast for Young Eyes and Minds!
"The rhyming text and repetition make this an enjoyable read-aloud."
--School Library Journal
Sylvan Dell Publishing
ISBN-10: 193435970X
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HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
...The rhyming text and repetition make this an enjoyable read-aloud: “Squirrel skips into the brambles thick./That snacking squirrel gives a great big lick./Slurp! Mmm-mm!/Tweet! Mmm-mm!/Squeak! Mmm-mm!” The illustrations give the fairly realistic animals great facial expressions that work perfectly with the text. The surprise they show when the bear arrives is a comic delight. An especially nice touch is the berry stains on all the faces–except poor Bear’s. The last four pages, “For Creative Minds,” offer information on blackberries, the food chain, native and nonnative plants, how plants and animals help each other, and a smoothie recipe. This section is for a variety of ages and can easily be modified to fit a specific grade level.
--School Library Journal (Catherine Callegari, Gay-Kimball Library, Troy, NH)
What a charming rhyming book – I loved it! Author Terry Pierce's carefully chosen words are perfect, and the illustrations by Lisa Downey are kid-friendly and hilarious. I especially loved the expressions on the animals' faces. There's a yummy blackberry bush in the forest, and the animals are enjoying eating all the blackberries until . . . well, you'll just have to read this story to find out what happens. This is a very funny book that gets a high five from me for keeping me interested and laughing with each turn of the page. I give this picture book another high five for great text, great illustrations, and great fun while learning! Could you tell I really liked this book?
--Stories for Children Magazine (Gayle Jacobson-Huset)
The animals of the forest can’t wait to feast on the sweet, plump fruit that has newly sprouted on the local blackberry bush. A mouse squeaks with delight as it reaches for a berry. A deer eagerly chomps away on the fruit. What a wonderful meal everyone is having! Then the animals become startled when they see a bear approaching. But they have nothing to worry about. It just wants to join in on the feast! Perfect for reading aloud, this charming story combines fun rhymes, exclamatory sentences, and zany illustrations.
--National Wildlife Federation's Your Big Backyard - Aug 2008
In this delightful tale, several forest animals scramble to the blackberry bush in a “wee green wood” to feast on delicious berries...The animals, in the order they arrive, offer a squeak, tweet, slurp, yip, and chomp followed by a satisfied “Mmm-mm” as they snack on the berries. The repetitive build up of sounds in this cumulative tale allows listeners to “read” along after only hearing it a few times. Short text, punctuated with vivid verbs, keeps the pace flowing and the tale interesting...The author’s unique presentation allows readers to come away knowing much about which forest animals dine on berries without feeling they have been taught something...Teachers can’t go wrong with this entertaining book and the activities that contain math, science, geography, and language arts lessons.
---Nancy Attebury, Children's Literature
This snappy rhyming text has all the woodland animals zeroing in on a blackberry bush with its yummy, just-ripe treats. That is, until growly Bear turns up, sending them all scurrying in a farcical cascade of mishaps. But who will get the last berry--and the last laugh?
Pierce keeps the text light, with lots of appropriate onomatopoeia for all the animal noises when they're happily munching. Downey's lifelike art captures just a hint of whimsy in their gleeful gobbling. And, of course, there's more info on blackberries and their place in the "food web" and a yummy recipe for blackberry smoothie.
This is one of Sylvan Dell's better outings this season, with a more imaginative and sprightly treatment of a nature topic, but one that doesn't stray far from its factual basis.
---Anne Boles Levy, BookBuds.net
Woodland creatures great and small gather in a wee green wood to snack from a blackberry bush in this appealing rhythmic picture book by Terry Pierce. Perfect for read-alouds, children will love chiming in during the story’s mounting chorus which builds charmingly with each new blackberry diner. The arrival of a hungry bear provides the story’s amusing climax, and illustrator Lisa Downey wonderfully captures the animals’ expressive faces when greeted by the surprise guest. Blackberry Banquet is a ripe and juicy treat of a tale which children will happily pick off the bookshelf time and time again for a sweet reading snack. Mmm-mm!
---Rebecca Langston-George, Past President Kern Reading Association
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