A Day at the Market

by Sara Anderson

Book Overview

From the early morning fruit vendors hawking their wares to a quiet morning spent savoring a cup of hot chocolate, from the glistening, silvery salmon announced by a fishmonger's bellow to the silent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159354149X
• ISBN13: 9781593541491
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Handprint Books
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 12.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

A wonderful feast for the eyes

While the rhyming text to this book is fresh and fun, the real joy in sharing this book with your child comes from the amazing colorful pictures in vibrant colors that cover every page. Beautiful!

To market, to market

Sometimes you know a place so well, you memorize it like a song in your heart. Such is Anderson's obvious feel for Seattle's Pike Place Market, where she's lived and shopped and created for 25 years. Open this dazzling book and plunge into the bustling farmer's market, where vendors hawk and customers scurry and even a hobo dumpster dives. Color explodes off pages of cut paper, with windows that offer peeps into other pages and crowded new vistas. I've visited this national treasure only once, as a special treat for my 40th birthday. Our pixelated photos can't do justice to what Anderson captures with rhyming text that rips along in a syncopated approximation of street noises and market chatter: Bakers baking, heaven lingers ... Plain or frosted? Cinnamon fingers. In a word: Yummy.