When Mrs. Elmira Deeds waddles into Mr. Adolph's deli and asks for a pickle, chaos erupts! The pickle escapes from the jar, and a cast of zany characters, including a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and seventeen toasted almonds, joins in the chase to stop the pickle as it attempts to run away. Can anyone stop that pickle?
When Mrs. Elmira Deeds waddles into Mr. Adolph's deli and asks for a pickle, chaos erupts! The pickle escapes from the jar, and a cast of zany characters, including a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and seventeen toasted almonds, joins in the chase to stop the pickle as it attempts to run away. Can anyone stop that pickle?
Peter Armour and Andrew Shachat both live and work in California.
"Sophisticated art, in a funny book with broad appeal." Kirkus Reviews "The infectious refrain, deadpan humor, and outlandish paintings of anthropomorphized sandwiches, pretzels, and almonds will appeal to youngsters with a taste for the offbeat." --Booklist Booklist, ALA "A hoot." --Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly --
PreS-K-A pickle that doesn't want to be eaten tries to run away, and various other foods chase him. If your readers enjoy stories about food, this might interest them at first. The illustrations, however, will send them running. They're very poor imitations of Maira Kalman and Hendrik Drescher's styles, with none of the humor, care, or detail that characterize their respective works. The writing isn't involving or clever enough for a read-aloud, and the story lacks the development of similar tales such as Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's The Stinky Cheese Man (Viking, 1992) or even the traditional Gingerbread Boy. Stop that purchase order.-Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY
"Sophisticated art, in a funny book with broad appeal." Kirkus Reviews "The infectious refrain, deadpan humor, and outlandish paintings of anthropomorphized sandwiches, pretzels, and almonds will appeal to youngsters with a taste for the offbeat." --Booklist Booklist, ALA "A hoot." --Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly --
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