Allie's Garden

by Sabra Chebby, Marla Osborn (Illustrator)

Overview

Eating your vegetables has never been so fun! When Allie goes out to pick vegetables in the garden, she finds all kinds of surprising critters hiding there: an eggplant crow in the cornfield, a potato rabbit sniffing the lettuce and more. But with so many curious creatures around, will Allie’s veggies make it home for supper?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936669530
Publisher:	blue manatee press
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Sabra Chebby lives in Rochester, New York. She’s always had a passion for classic poetry and has been rediscovering her talents by working with her daughter, Marla Osborn. Marla Osborn is a photographer with a passion for visual concepts. She lives with her husband Jim and her daughter Alexandra. When Marla is not busy brainstorming new food creations, she enjoys traveling with her family.

Editorial Reviews

"[S]triking mixed-media artwork brings together three kinds of illustrations on the same page: a pen-and-ink cartoon Allie and her basket, photographs of fresh, delicious vegetables (corn, tomatoes, lettuce, and more), and expressive animals cleverly carved from vegetables . . . Toddlers will enjoy identifying the healthy vegetables—and they may even be stirred to eat them when they appear at dinnertime." —Kirkus Reviews STARRED Review

From the Publisher

★ 2017-05-01
Rhyming text and clever colorful illustrations by a mother-daughter duo feature in this delightful board book. When dark-haired, white-skinned Allie goes into her garden one morning to harvest vegetables, she finds some creatures hiding there. Will there be any vegetables left for Allie? "I walked to my garden / where the corn grew high, / and a noisy black crow / went flying by." Daughter Osborn's (Hungry Henry, 2016) striking mixed-media artwork brings together three kinds of illustrations on the same page: a pen-and-ink cartoon Allie and her basket, photographs of fresh, delicious vegetables (corn, tomatoes, lettuce, and more), and expressive animals cleverly carved from vegetables. The crow is made from an eggplant, and there's a floppy-eared bunny made from a potato, a carrot fox, and a cucumber-and-bell pepper snake. The vibrant vegetables stand out on the white background on all the pages. Toddlers will enjoy identifying the healthy vegetables—and they may even be stirred to eat them when they appear at dinnertime. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews