Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes [Large Print]

By Demian Elaine Yumei

Book Overview

This exquisite offering examines the circle of life through the innocent eyes of a young girl, who marvels at all the energy and collaboration it takes to grow yellow pear tomatoes. She sees that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097401902X
• ISBN13: 9780974019024
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Illumination Arts Publishing Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

What a wise girl for such a youngin.

Kids will get a lot out of this book. The text is excellent and the illustrations are great. They fit together very well. There were 13 scenes (2-pages each) included. I was able to get a good idea of the story just by turning the pages and looking at the pictures. The story was about a little girl who lived on a farm where her father grew little yellow pear tomatoes for her. The little girl explained during the story how her little yellow tomatoes were able to grow on the farm. Very educational! I think little kids will enjoy having this book read to them over and over. The high quality of the text and illustrations should ensure that. I would have liked the book better if I'd been told who the little girl was (what was her name?). Also, I did not see the need to include the concept of heaven. 5 stars!

A young girl who explores the circle of life & marvels at the collaboration & effort involved in

Inspired by Zen teachings, Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes is a children's picturebook about a young girl who explores the circle of life and marvels at the collaboration and effort involved in cultivating fruits she loves so much. Written in singsong rhyming verse, and beautifully illustrated in full color, Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes explores the fundamental connections between all people, labors, and things big and small. "I am in these little yellow pear tomatoes, too, / because if I didn't love eating them / so much, my daddy wouldn't plant them! // Each little yellow pear tomato / has the entire earth and all of heaven / in it... just like me. // I love little yellow pear tomatoes!"

tasty treat!

Rebeccasreads highly recommends LITTLE YELLOW PEAR TOMATOES as a thoughtful & charming way to introduce kids to the growing cycle of life, from weeds to tasting, from worms to water, from sunshine to caterpillars, & of course, the little girl, because if she didn't like them, her daddy wouldn't grow them. As a grower of LITTLE YELLOW PEAR TOMATOES, I wholeheartedly recommend this lovely book which will grace your family's library & entrance youngsters for generations to come.

tomato plants in garden as ecological example of interconnection of all parts of nature

The holistic Zen teachings of Thich Nat Hanh are behind this picture given by a young girl of everything that goes into the little yellow pear tomatoes in her family's garden. "A lot of not-a-tomato [italicized in original] things" are in them. Her mother and father are "in" the tomatoes for helping to cultivate them. Sunshine, worms, insects, and weather are also in the tomatoes because they are a part of the surrounding, ecological environment in which the tomatoes grow. Tamarin's dramatic shifts in perspective from illustration to illustration help carry this holistic message home to young readers. A farmland panorama is followed by earthworms in the ground beneath the tomato plants; in one double-page illustration, the young girl becomes smaller than a plant leaf, while in a later picture her head in shown among the planetary system.