![]() ![]() Created with a mix of clipped photo-bits of food and utensils and figures cut from brown paper, the illustrations have a simple look that goes with the pared-down text, the perspectives and dramatic effect reminiscent of Mo Willems’s Pigeon books, but it doesn’t really capture the drama like Lauren Child’s I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (2000). ![]() “a veggie monster!” Peas choked down at last, the crisis ends-but, of course, there’s always tomorrow’s broccoli. I knew it would start with the fingers”), curling toes (“That’s a new one!”) and twitches that are violent enough to knock over the chair as the child is transformed into. One touch of pea to tongue is all it takes to elicit writhing fingers (“Ahh. “Time for another fun-filled hour,” observes Dad grimly, setting down a plate holding three seemingly boulder-sized peas in front of the hyper-dramatic lad who narrates. McClements takes a distinctly parental point of view in portraying a young veggie-hater’s nightly dinner-table performance. ![]()
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After a series of highly praised literary novels in the Nineties, Kate Atkinson devoted most of the first decade of this century to writing four books about Jackson Brodie, a private detective, sexy-grumpy in the Morse mode, who has been deeply hurt by life and is determined to prevent as many people as possible suffering as badly as he has.Įach of these novels at first seems to be tootling along the standard crime fiction route, but before long they slip the surly bonds of formula and ride madly off in all directions. ![]() |