Eats: Poems

by Arnold Adoff

Book Overview

A mouth-watering, laugh-provoking collection of poems, celebrating the author's love affair with food. ALA Notable Children's Book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688519016
• ISBN13: 9780688519018
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fresh perspective on food

Adoff's poems remind us of the simple delights that come from food whether its the food grown in your own backyard or the special memories made when someone special makes french toast for a child. Poems include real recipes as well as the joys of gardening with children. I particularly like the poems that remind where our food comes from. In one poem, Adoff speaks of the joy of harvesting after working hard planting and pulling weeds on hot summer afternoons. He writes that by harvest time, we can walk between the rows on cool mornings and "bite a bean or chew a lettus leaf ... and taste the ripe tomatoes the way rabbits take breakfast." I also particularly like the poem entitled "Sunflowers" in which he describes picking the seeds and roasting them. He says: "they will roast slowly and dry to the taste of autumn sun." This is a nice book to share with children especially if you are gardening with them and/or cooking with them.