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elzabetg's review against another edition
4.0
What a cute book! Gabriel really enjoyed it although he thought he wouldn't. LOL He's still singing the song to himself.
bookstacksamber's review against another edition
3.0
((I received this book as an eARC from NetGalley))
Little Girl is in her garden picking peas and singing. A rabbit comes along and starts sneakily eating up all her peas. What will she do when she catches him?
The story is cute, but what I really love are the illustrations. They're so fun and colorful. There are a lot of pages with full-color illustrations and no text, perfect when reading with younger kids. They'll be able to point out all the actions and objects in the pictures without being distracted by the text.
I won't be using this story in my classroom because there is a song component to the story, and as I teach deaf and hard of hearing students, it would be too confusing for them. It would be a cute book for a preschool or kindergarten classroom doing a lesson on gardening or plant life cycles.
Little Girl is in her garden picking peas and singing. A rabbit comes along and starts sneakily eating up all her peas. What will she do when she catches him?
The story is cute, but what I really love are the illustrations. They're so fun and colorful. There are a lot of pages with full-color illustrations and no text, perfect when reading with younger kids. They'll be able to point out all the actions and objects in the pictures without being distracted by the text.
I won't be using this story in my classroom because there is a song component to the story, and as I teach deaf and hard of hearing students, it would be too confusing for them. It would be a cute book for a preschool or kindergarten classroom doing a lesson on gardening or plant life cycles.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
5.0
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley.
Pickin Peas is the beautiful retelling of folktale that originally appeared, according to MacDonald, in Southern Workman. A girl is out picking peas in her garden and confronts a rabbit who, like most rabbits, starts to take the remaining peas.
The story and the accompanying illustrations are absolutely charming.
The retelling is very much in the tradition of the Joel Chandler Harris collected tales – the Brer Rabbit tales (tales in which the hunter animals, such as the wolf, are the slave owners and the weaker but more cunning animals, like rabbits and pigs, are the slaves. The best version of the Three Little Pigs is from Chandler’s collection), and there is even a reference to the Brer stories in the details of the pictures.
There is much to recommend the story from the use of an African-American girl who deals with problems on her own and comes to terms with what she cannot change to the beautiful drawings. MacDonald also includes an afterword which gives suggests about how to perform the story either to an individual child or to a group of children. She also includes musical notation for the song in the story.
The story is a wonderful surprise in how lovely it is - for the narration to the illustrations.
Highly recommended.
Pickin Peas is the beautiful retelling of folktale that originally appeared, according to MacDonald, in Southern Workman. A girl is out picking peas in her garden and confronts a rabbit who, like most rabbits, starts to take the remaining peas.
The story and the accompanying illustrations are absolutely charming.
The retelling is very much in the tradition of the Joel Chandler Harris collected tales – the Brer Rabbit tales (tales in which the hunter animals, such as the wolf, are the slave owners and the weaker but more cunning animals, like rabbits and pigs, are the slaves. The best version of the Three Little Pigs is from Chandler’s collection), and there is even a reference to the Brer stories in the details of the pictures.
There is much to recommend the story from the use of an African-American girl who deals with problems on her own and comes to terms with what she cannot change to the beautiful drawings. MacDonald also includes an afterword which gives suggests about how to perform the story either to an individual child or to a group of children. She also includes musical notation for the song in the story.
The story is a wonderful surprise in how lovely it is - for the narration to the illustrations.
Highly recommended.
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