One Lonely Seahorse

by Saxton Freymann

Book Overview

Fruits and vegetables speak louder than words, and Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers (Play with Your Food, How Are You Peeling?) sure know how to tell a tale with produce. Bea--a lonely sea horse made... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439110149
• ISBN13: 9780439110143
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Visual Feast

Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers have been playing with their food again and luckily for us, have come up with a delightful little counting and rhyming story about a lonely little sea horse. As you turn each page, she encounters first two crabs, then three puffer fish, four lobsters, five turtles and on and on until we reach a school of ten angelfish. But what makes this book so unusual, special and unique are the creative, bold and colorful illustrations. Each sea creature, including the undersea backgrounds are constructed of fruits and vegetables. Those two little friendly crabs are really shitake mushrooms. The puffer fish, horned melons, the lobsters, ginger, the turtles, pineapples, the angelfish, red and yellow peppers and the little sea horse herself, chioggia beets. All foods used are pictured and labeled on the last page and you and your children will have additional fun finding all the imaginative ways they've been used. This is a charming picture book all pre-schoolers will love and a visual feast for the eyes. Very highly recommended, you can't go wrong with this book.

Joyful! For infants through young readers

Superb photos and a fun story ("Seven eels said, 'What a shock you're so unhappy. We should talk.'" ). It's one of those rare books that babies and toddlers will love (simple text, bright pictures) as well as young readers (who'll be captivated by the photos of fruits and vegetables turned into sea creatures).

A new meaning to the term "playing with your food"!

This adorable book uses fruits and veggies to illustrate various animals of the deep blue sea. Along with this unique approach to illustration, this book teaches childrens how to count as well. The book is a useful educational tool for children, as well as entertaining anough to hold parents' attention. In fact, I think I like this one better than _How Are You Peeling?_, though that is a fine book, too.

Visually stunning

Bananas as dolphins and octopi? A pineapple turtle? Bell pepper angelfish? These are a few of the clever and innovative characters in this charming book. Sea Horse is more than a simple story- it incorporates number concepts, food identification, and emotional exploration, while providing a visual backdrop that is a treat for the eyes. Definitely one to add to a child's library- and parents will like it too!

Entertaining, Educational and Edible!

One Lonely Sea Horse carries a simple message of friendship in an intriguing manner that captures the imagination of even the youngest readers while still entertaining and educating the older child.The use of various vegetables for the illustrations is a fun technique, very well done in this vividly illustrated story of the lonely little sea horse at the ocean floor.The older child (and parents, too) will enjoy trying to name the different types of food that make up the illustrations, with some pleasantly simple surprises in some of the sea animals. One Lonely Little Sea Horse is an entertaining, educational book that children and parents will love to read again and again.