Book Details:
Name: Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet
Publication: Rodale Kids 2017
Art By: Jessie Ford
Page count: 28
Language: English
Genres: Fiction, Children’s literature
Format: Board Book
Reading Age: 1-5 years
Weight: 12.4 ounces
Book Synopsis:
Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book is the first of 6 series Alphabet books with respect to fruits, vegetables, birds, bugs, flowers and trees. This book introduces ABCs to babies and toddlers in fun and delicious way. From asparagus to zucchini, Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book reflects colorful variety of less common vegetables with free hand crayon designs using vibrant colors and informative facts which are super fun to read for adults as well. This is an exciting method to learn your ABCs in a non-traditional way.
Book Review:
Alphabets are basic introduction to any language. To begin with basics, we need to start with ABCs of those things. Toddler age is perfect as it is about time to introduce our children to nature and its bountiful gifts. Fruits, vegetables, birds, bugs, flowers and trees are integral part of this natural world and hence Mrs. Peanuckle’s 6 series alphabet books are what you should reach for.
Mrs. Peanuckle introduces ABCs to young readers with variety of vegetables names beginning from the alphabets. A for Asparagus to Z for Zucchini, this book has amazing graphic illustrations from tiny faces to tiny moustaches on the veggies, surely making your young ones excited about vegetables. The informative text about the vegetables is quite astonishing. This book reading will add new words to your kid’s vocabulary and encourage sentence formation as well. While reading, I was surprised to know that Dandelion leaves are edible and N for Nasturtium is a flower that you can eat too! My little one enjoys reading Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book and while eating her veggies she likes to call out loud the names of the vegetables to me.
Though Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book has bright and bold illustrations, I think that some of the informative text is too long for the little ones. Few pages do not have vegetable names but related information such as Q for Queen Bee to spread pollens, U for Underground where many things grow and V for Vegetables in general. This book has funny elements also for example, E for Eggplant which is not really an egg! and M for Mushroom-this fungi counts as a vegetable especially when it is on Pizza! Kids will really appreciate this humor. Although not a simplified version, Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book is definitely the better one from memorizing point of view.
My Recommendation:
You can buy Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet book for parallel learning of ABCs and vegetables. I used this book to introduce my daughter to these wonderful veggies and we learn our ABCs in traditional way with A for Apple and B for Ball so that it is less confusing for her.
You can also add Mrs Peanuckle’s Fruit and Flower Alphabet books to your collection as they are also very informative. What are you waiting for? Grab your copy of Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet Book, 1st Book in the series and move up to Book 6. Start right away!
