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Who Eats Orange? by Robin Page, Dianne White

carolineinthelibrary's review against another edition

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5.0

A great book for story time that incorporates facts with story. I love that it teaches kids about both color and what animals eat!

steenah's review against another edition

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5.0

An enjoyable nonfiction picture book exploring colors, animals, and the foods they eat. Questions engage the reader throughout and bright illustrations pop on each page. This would be a great book to introduce to early readers and a fun way to interact at home or in the classroom.

tracybabler's review against another edition

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3.0

Thanks to the publisher for the review copy. All opinions are my own.

WHO EATS ORANGE is a mix of concept book introducing colors and nonfiction book about animal eating patterns. Find out which animals eat which colors, with a fake-out twist at the end of each spread that leads readers to a new color. Fans of BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? will love this book. An added bonus: it rhymes!

the_knitting_librarian's review against another edition

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5.0

Explores animals, colors, and teaches nutrition along the way too. Fabulous illustrations.

heisereads's review against another edition

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5.0

Great book with interesting information, engaging structure, stunning illustrations, and lots of extra information in the back matter. Loved this and will be ordering for my library asap. As I read it, was thinking it could be a good pairing for some Lois Ehlert books.

michelle_neuwirth_gray9311's review against another edition

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4.0

Themes: colors, animals, food

bibliothique's review against another edition

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it's cute and I love the illustrations and the rhythmic structure (plus the way they gave names to where some of the animals live) but it's very simplified like of course nonhuman animals can have multicolored diets lol. but i did like how it ended on eating a rainbow bc i think that's a good and easy way to think about adequate nutrition not just for littles but for bigs too.

tashrow's review

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5.0

Asking which animals eat what colors allows this book to explore both animals and colors at the same time. Starting with the title question, the book looks at bunnies eating carrots, chickens pecking cantaloupe, goats biting oranges, and pigs munching pumpkins. But what about a gorilla? No, gorillas eat green! And the book merrily moves on to that color and then on to other food colors as well. The animals are varied and interesting including turkeys, foxes, quetzals, marmots, reindeer and many more. The book ends asking you about the colors you eat and revealing the rainbow of food that humans enjoy.

White has created an energetic picture book that has a strong structure that young children will find enticing. She has selected the featured animals cleverly, using both familiar animals and exotic animals side-by-side. The book’s structure includes asking about a different animal to move to the new color of food, leading very nicely into the final part of the book as well.

The digital illustrations have a great physicality about them, feeling more like paper collage than digital on the page. Each of the animals has a great light in their eyes, looking back at the reader usually with a playful and inviting glint while not being anthropomorphized at all.

A great book for the youngest set that introduces colors and animals and allows for some guessing games as well. Appropriate for ages 2-4.
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