This is a counting book about a
family who goes shopping together, prepares a meal and enjoys the feast. The shopping trip begins with 1 shopping cart
and counts up to 10 hands helping in the kitchen, and then counts back down to
1.
The family buys pumpkins to make a
pie, chicken, different types of beans, tomatoes and bunches of greens. The text is minimal but the pictures are full
of images of the mother and her five children shopping together and the foods
that they buy. At the end of the book
the family sits down together at a big table to enjoy the feast.
I think that this book promotes
some social messages that I find are important: it is important to spend time
with your family, we can buy healthy foods and cook them, children can be helpful
in the kitchen and help cook- if they are too young to be involved then they
are observing, and it is important to sit down and eat a meal with the entire
family. These may not be values that
everyone has, but they are ones that I find are important and want my daughter
to learn.
-Daphne Cummings
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