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A new title in the Eric Carle and Friends What's Your Favorite picture book series, in which Eric Carle and thirteen other beloved children's book artists illustrate their favorite foods and explain why they love them.
Everybody has a favorite food. Some enjoy sweet treats like rich honey or ripe, juicy berries. Others prefer the savory comforts of warming matzo ball soup or creamy chicken Alfredo. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, fourteen children's book artists share their favorite foods and why they love them. Artists include: Aki, Isabelle Arsenault, Brigette Barrager, Matthew Cordell, Benji Davies, Karen Katz, Laurie Keller, Juliet Menendez, Greg Pizzoli, Misa Saburi, Felicita Sala, Dan Santat, Shannon Wright.
Author Notes
Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitting at the age of 16 before graduation. He was admitted as the youngest student to the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, an art school.
After finishing at the Akademie, he worked as a poster designer for the U.S. Information Center in Germany until 1952, when he moved back to New York City. He was a graphic designer at the New York Times and later worked as an art director at L.W. Frohlich & Co. In 1963, Bill Martin, Jr. saw a poster of a red lobster that Carle had designed and asked him to illustrate Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, thus launching his freelance career. Among his many children's books are Dream Snow, Hello, Red Fox, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, and Pancakes, Pancakes! His title The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. His title Brown Bear Brown Bear What to You See? made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Eric Carle, beloved children's book author and illustrator, died on May 23, 2021. He was 91.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1--In this title, Carle and 13 of his children's book world friends write about their favorite foods. For Dan Santat, ramen is the best ever and for Laurie Keller, it is French fries. Each artist is given a spread that includes large illustrations. Text reflects the individual author's style. For example, Greg Pizzoli says his favorite food is salad: "I like the carrots, the cukes, and currants,/but what I like most of all, is that nothing in my bowl/ had parents." This title has an attractive layout and design. Text of the favorite foods ranges from one line to a couple of paragraphs. Illustrations clearly embrace the style of those featured and will be recognizable to devoted readers. Back matter includes a baby picture of each contributor as well as a mention of some of their titles. There is also a spread with pictures and a description of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. This book would work well in a group or one-on-one setting. VERDICT Highly recommended for public and school libraries to be used in programs and for circulation. This vibrant and fresh title is a winner.--Robin Sofge, Prince William Public Library System, VA
Publisher's Weekly Review
In the fourth book of the What's Your Favorite series, Carle and 13 other creators introduce their chosen foods in vignettes ranging from exuberant odes to factual descriptions. Dan Santat's favorite meal is an inviting bowl of ramen, and he presents the quintessential bottles of soy and chili sauces alongside the dish. Laurie Keller selects French fries as her favorite, with a smiling potato reminiscent of her spud from Potato Pants! (She also fibs a little: "Do you know how French fries are made? Well, the sun is a giant potato and when its potato rays turn golden and crispy they fall to Earth!") Karen Katz selects matzo ball soup, enjoyed by a child in pink, Felicita Sala chooses paella, and Shannon Wright highlights chicken alfredo. Another fun collaboration that will have readers thinking about their own favorite foods. Ages 4-8. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
In this fundraiser for the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, fourteen illustrators answer the titular question in words and pictures, from Carles love for pine honey to Akis declaration that in autumn, winter, spring, or summer, ice cream is always a good idea. Some notes on the art would have been appreciated, but the book is nonetheless a panoply of styles and media with generally mouth-watering results. roger Sutton ?July/Aug p.156(c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Fourteen renowned author/illustrators share musings about their favorite foods.In this follow-up to What's Your Favorite Color (2017), a variety of children's-book creators present one double-page spread each about their favorite meal, snack, or dessert. Each is done in the artist's characteristic style, from Dan Santat's close attention to detail to Isabelle Arsenault's painterly presentation. The text varies significantly as well. Some entries are brief, like Misa Saburi's entry on strawberry daifuku: "Mochi stuffed with / sweet azuki paste / and a fresh strawberry / is quite magical!" Others are more informative, like Eric Carle's opening description of tannen honig, or pine honey, and some are funny, like Laurie Keller's assertion that French fries come from the sun. Greg Pizzoli inserts a sly admonition to vegetarianism, saying that "what I like most of all / is that nothing in my bowl / had parents." The final two pages show photographs of the authors (majority white and also majority women) as children with their biographies. While this collection is enjoyable enough, it remains to be seen whether children will be curious enough about the topic (especially given children's general lack of name recognition) to warrant rereading.Good for young audiences and their grown-ups looking for something quick, enjoyable, but not too filling. (Picture book/poetry. 5-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
