Lunch, or What's That? (Freckleface Strawberry Series)

by Julianne Moore, Leuyen Pham (Illustrator)

Overview

Academy-Award winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Julianne Moore brings us more adventures from Freckleface Strawberry! Picky eaters everywhere will laugh along as Freckleface Strawberry gets her lunch from the cafeteria and asks the terrifying question: “What’s that?!”
 
With predictable sentence patterns, simple words, frequent repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this is a new Freckleface Strawberry book that young readers can read all by themselves!

"Moore offers another delightful tale of her red-headed heroine, Freckleface Strawberry."—School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385391931
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/23/2015
Series:	Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 2 Book
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

JULIANNE MOORE is an Academy Award–winning actress and the author of the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me, illustrated by Meilo So. She lives in New York City with her family. 

LeUYEN PHAM is the prolific illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. Her own works include The Twelve Days of Christmas, All the Things I Love About You, and Big Sister, Little Sister. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"Moore offers another delightful tale of her red-headed heroine, Freckleface Strawberry."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2015-05-12
Moore lampoons school lunches in this early-reader series outing. Both Freckleface Strawberry and her heavy friend Windy Pants Patrick (readers may well wonder about his name, as he is wearing shorts) love to eat. They love hot dogs, grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly, chicken fingers, and noodles. But neither especially likes to eat school lunches. One day, Freckleface sits down with an especially interesting-looking lunch consisting of a bowl of green noodles. In an unfunny schtick that's repeated too many times, one by one three friends ask her what it is. "That is lunch." "But what is it?" "I do not know." Finally, after a teacher shushes them for yelling instead of eating, Freckleface digs in. And though she still may not know what lunch is, she does know that she likes it. Moore's characters lack personality, though at least classmate Noah has a trait—yelling instead of talking—that makes him stand out from the others. And though the subject is near and dear to readers' hearts, this treatment can't hold a candle to the likes of True Kelley's School Lunch (2005). Pham's illustrations portray Freckleface, Windy Pants, and Noah as starkly white; Southeast Asian Winnie is Freckleface's only friend of color. There are two other brown girls in the cafeteria, but they have no interactions with the main characters. New readers deserve better. (Early reader. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews