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Tales for Very Picky Eaters
2012 Winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award! James is a very picky eater. His dad has to get creative—very creative—in order to get James to eat foods he thinks he doesn’t like. He presents James with a series of outlandish scenarios packed with fanciful and gross kid-friendly details—like pre-chewed gum as an alternative to broccoli and lumpy oatmeal that grows so big i...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
May 2nd 2011
by Clarion Books
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The opening lines of this book are something that all kids can immediately relate to. This fun book is a great story for children. James is a very picky eater, so in order for him to eat his dad gets very creative! He has many scenarios of how the food was made, and what will happen if he doesn't eat it. My favorite scenario was the smelly lasagna, and the troll who made it in the basement. I know that if I were James I would stop being such a picky eater.
The cover of this book is colorful and...more
The cover of this book is colorful and...more
Genre: Controlled Vocabulary/ Geisel Award Winner 2012
Summary: James, a very picky eater, refuses to eat anything he suspects of being gross until his father tells him fantastical stories of what will happen if he doesn't.
A) Area of Focus: Structure
B) This book is for designed for beginning readers of chapter books. It has all of the necessary components of a chapter book but they are presented in a simple, easy-to-understand format for beginning readers.
C) For example, the book is 48 pages long...more
Summary: James, a very picky eater, refuses to eat anything he suspects of being gross until his father tells him fantastical stories of what will happen if he doesn't.
A) Area of Focus: Structure
B) This book is for designed for beginning readers of chapter books. It has all of the necessary components of a chapter book but they are presented in a simple, easy-to-understand format for beginning readers.
C) For example, the book is 48 pages long...more
Citation: Tales for Very Picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider. (Clarion, 2011). 48p. Controlled Vocabulary.
Summary: This is the story of James, a picky eater. Each of five chapters details a conversation with his dad, who convinces James to give each food a chance.
Critique: (a.) The character of James is well developed through the five short chapters of this book.
(b.)At the beginning, James’ father must develop an elaborate story to convince him to eat his broccoli in chapter one. By the end of the b...more
Summary: This is the story of James, a picky eater. Each of five chapters details a conversation with his dad, who convinces James to give each food a chance.
Critique: (a.) The character of James is well developed through the five short chapters of this book.
(b.)At the beginning, James’ father must develop an elaborate story to convince him to eat his broccoli in chapter one. By the end of the b...more
1. This is a controlled vocabulary book. This is a winner of the Geisel Award.
2. This is about a boy names James who is a very picky eater. His dad gets creative with his food trying to get him to eat different things by presenting other silly foods for him to eat instead of the foods he says he won’t eat.
3. (A) This is a very accurate controlled vocabulary book for children to read. It has very simple words that children could read and the illustrations support the reader by providing more in...more
2. This is about a boy names James who is a very picky eater. His dad gets creative with his food trying to get him to eat different things by presenting other silly foods for him to eat instead of the foods he says he won’t eat.
3. (A) This is a very accurate controlled vocabulary book for children to read. It has very simple words that children could read and the illustrations support the reader by providing more in...more
Genre: controlled vocabulary
Summary: James has preconceived notions about various food items and refuses to eat them! His dad Has to find an interesting way to expand his sons palate - through gross ( but funny!) comparisons of gross things with food items James is hesitant about.
A. Literary element- comparisons (similes and metaphors)
B. Schneider compares many food items that are generally popular with others to crazy items and historically gross things in order to get his son to eat food. His...more
Summary: James has preconceived notions about various food items and refuses to eat them! His dad Has to find an interesting way to expand his sons palate - through gross ( but funny!) comparisons of gross things with food items James is hesitant about.
A. Literary element- comparisons (similes and metaphors)
B. Schneider compares many food items that are generally popular with others to crazy items and historically gross things in order to get his son to eat food. His...more
Genre: Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: James refuses to eat the food that he thinks he wont like. That is, until his father comes up with outlandish stories about oatmeal growing so big that it might eat his dog. It is a playful book that helps children with reading while learning an important lesson: You might like it if you try it!
Critique:
a. The way the illustrations are used with the words to create the perfect beginning reader book.
b. The illustrations in this story are very simple while the...more
Summary: James refuses to eat the food that he thinks he wont like. That is, until his father comes up with outlandish stories about oatmeal growing so big that it might eat his dog. It is a playful book that helps children with reading while learning an important lesson: You might like it if you try it!
Critique:
a. The way the illustrations are used with the words to create the perfect beginning reader book.
b. The illustrations in this story are very simple while the...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider
1. Genre: Easy-to-Read Picture Book
2. Summary: James does not want to eat disgusting broccoli, smelly lasagna, repulsive milk, lumpy oameal, or slimy eggs. However, when his father describes what his other eating choices are or what will happen if he decides not eat what is on his plate, James changes his mind.
3. Critique:
a. Area for comment: The content encourages new readers, and the funny illustrations demonstrate the story.
b. Comment: The sen...more
1. Genre: Easy-to-Read Picture Book
2. Summary: James does not want to eat disgusting broccoli, smelly lasagna, repulsive milk, lumpy oameal, or slimy eggs. However, when his father describes what his other eating choices are or what will happen if he decides not eat what is on his plate, James changes his mind.
3. Critique:
a. Area for comment: The content encourages new readers, and the funny illustrations demonstrate the story.
b. Comment: The sen...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider is a silly chapter book aimed for young readers. The book is about a boy, James, who is an extremely picky eater. James complains about all of the food he is supposed to eat and is constantly asking, “Do we have anything else?” When James refuses to eat his broccoli, his father offers instead sweaty socks, the world’s finest dirt, and already chewed up gum. When James expresses his dislike for lasagna, his father suggests they fir the troll, who sta...more
Do you know someone who is a picky eater? Are you yourself a picky eater? Does the sound of a certain food make you sick to your stomach? James is a young boy, who has a very difficult time with finding food that he likes to eat. Day after day, and night after night, James tells his Dad that he just can’t eat this, and he just can’t eat that. “The lasagna is smelly”, he says one night. The next night he just “can’t eat broccoli”. Nothing his dad makes for him tickles James fancy. Every time that...more
1. Genre: Controlled Vocabulary Picture Book (Geisel Award)
2. Summary: James, a young boy, tells his father that he doesn't want to eat certain foods on his plate. This book includes five different tales of James not wanting to eat such as broccoli, oatmeal, and eggs; however, his father convinces his son to try these foods, but telling tales of the side effects of his choices not to eat them.
3. Critique:
a) Descriptive words
b) The author uses many descriptive and adjective words in this story...more
2. Summary: James, a young boy, tells his father that he doesn't want to eat certain foods on his plate. This book includes five different tales of James not wanting to eat such as broccoli, oatmeal, and eggs; however, his father convinces his son to try these foods, but telling tales of the side effects of his choices not to eat them.
3. Critique:
a) Descriptive words
b) The author uses many descriptive and adjective words in this story...more
Genre: Controlled Vocabulary (Geisel Award)
Summary: Tales for Very Picky Eaters are a collection of five humorous tales regarding the possible effects and consequences of being a picky eater.
A. Area for comment: Theme
B. Tales for Very Picky Eaters skillfully uses fun-filled fictional scenarios to convey the story’s theme or central idea, focusing on why James should not be a picky eater. Instead of just plainly stating the message “you should not be a picky eater,” the author instead chooses t...more
Like many of us, James is a picky eater, and the five chapters in this slim volume highlight his disdain for disgusting broccoli, smelly lasagna, repulsive milk, lumpy oatmeal, and slimy eggs. But James has a caring, savvy father, and instead of forcing his son to eat the food he needs in order to be healthy, he weaves hilarious stories about food. For instance, when James asks for something other than broccoli, his father offers him dirt or gum that has been "carefully chewed one thousand times...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider tells of a father who gets his picky eater son to try different foods by telling him outlandish, exaggerated stories.
The five chapers are: Tale of the Disgusting Broccolii, Tale of the Smelly Lasagna. Tale of the Repulsive Milk, Tale of the Lumpy Oatmeal, and Tale of the Slimy Eggs. In the first four stories, James' father comes up with wild reasons to try the food being served. In the last story, as James repeats his father's story formula, the fath...more
The five chapers are: Tale of the Disgusting Broccolii, Tale of the Smelly Lasagna. Tale of the Repulsive Milk, Tale of the Lumpy Oatmeal, and Tale of the Slimy Eggs. In the first four stories, James' father comes up with wild reasons to try the food being served. In the last story, as James repeats his father's story formula, the fath...more
Are you ready to laugh out loud? Are you a picky eater or know picky eaters? Do you want another brilliant easy chapter book? This is your lucky day! James is a picky eater. He doesn't like a lot of the things that his dad wants him to eat. Just take a look at the titles of the chapters: "The Tale of the Disgusting Broccoli", "The Tale of the Smelly Lasagna", "The Tale of the Repulsive Milk", "The Tale of the Lumpy Oatmeal", and "The Tale of the Slimy Eggs". In each chapter James doesn't want to...more
I really loved this book and am glad it won the Geisel! Perhaps, because I know where the main character, our official picky eater, is coming from! I'll admit that more frustrated parents may enjoy this book than picky young eaters. However, I think the humor is clear enough for beginning readers to get the joke and enjoy the story. The young hero is not particularly fond of a number of famously icky foods to youngsters such as broccoli, lumpy oatmeal and slimy eggs. His father comes up with out...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider, a Theodore Seuss Geisel Award-winning book, is a humorous beginning chapter reader for early elementary students. This book examines a boy and his struggles with food as well as the lengths a father will go to get his son to try a bite. As someone who was once a picky eater and now is a parent of a picky eater, I found this book to be both funny and endearing. The quiz on the front inside cover set the tone from the very start, and I knew I was in f...more
'Tales for Very Picky Eaters' by Josh Schneider is a fun, illustrated book with five very short chapters. Each chapter features James, the titular picky eater; one particular food James refuses to eat; and James's father, who is never seen but who offers James alternative food choices or other information that encourage James to try the food items he initially refuses. From broccoli and lasagna to milk, oatmeal, and eggs, James thinks it is all disgusting. His wise father must find imaginative w...more
1. Genre: Controlled Vocabulary (Geisel Award)
2. Summary: This book is about a little boy, James, who won't eat some foods because of how they look, smell, or feel, and how his father convinces him to eat them with fantastic stories.
3a. Format
3b. This book is a beginning reader's book, and is set-up into 5 chapters, each discussing a different food that James doesn't want to eat. Each chapter is begins with James telling his father why he will not eat the food. His father then skillfully convinc...more
2. Summary: This book is about a little boy, James, who won't eat some foods because of how they look, smell, or feel, and how his father convinces him to eat them with fantastic stories.
3a. Format
3b. This book is a beginning reader's book, and is set-up into 5 chapters, each discussing a different food that James doesn't want to eat. Each chapter is begins with James telling his father why he will not eat the food. His father then skillfully convinc...more
This book is the 2012 (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award medal winner. It is the story of a little boy who is a picky eater and how his father creates fantastic tales to encourage the little boy to eat his food. Every parent will relate to having a picky eater. Children will laugh at the fantastic tales that the father creates and hopefully it will lead them to try some new foods. The color illustrations help children to picture the tales that the father is creating. Almost every page includes the lit...more
This dad is thinking. He's a clever one. Don't want to eat your broccoli? No problem. We have dirt. You can eat that. We also have some pre-chewed gum and sweaty socks; you could eat those. Strange, his son decides that broccoli doesn't look quite so horrible, after all.
While I don't particularly think this book deserved the 2012 Geisel, it was funny, and would make an entertaining read-aloud.
*UPDATE: Per my experience this week, I was soooo wrong. This does NOT make an entertaining read-alou...more
While I don't particularly think this book deserved the 2012 Geisel, it was funny, and would make an entertaining read-aloud.
*UPDATE: Per my experience this week, I was soooo wrong. This does NOT make an entertaining read-alou...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters, is a book that relates to me personally a lot, because I am a very VERY picky eater. The character in this book does not want to eat his food, because of the weird textures and smells of the food, but then the dad tells the boy stories that will happen if he does not eat his food. The story is cleaver and funny. My favorite part was when the dad told him that he had a troll cook living in the basement, the illustrations of this made me giggle in a child like manner....more
This picturebook received the Theodore Seuss Geisel Award in 2012 and is intended for children ages 5-8 years(P). This beginner level chapter book tells the tale of James, the all-too-familiar picky eater, and his clever dad, who employs reverse psychology to get James to eat his food.
I gave this book 5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The plot is one that many children of the primary reading age can relate to. All of the dialogue between James and his father takes place at the kit...more
I gave this book 5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The plot is one that many children of the primary reading age can relate to. All of the dialogue between James and his father takes place at the kit...more
Tales for Very Picky Eaters is a the 2012 Geisel Award winner, and it is definitely deserving of such an award! The book itself centers around a young boy who seems to be having a hard time trying new foods, but the boy's father creates some fantastic explanations as to why he should probably give them a try. The book itself is pretty funny and the father's explanations are quite creative, plus this book could definitely give some parents out there ideas as to how to get their own children to ea...more
Tales for Very picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider (Clarion books, 2011) p.48
Picture books: Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: Winner of the 2012 Geisel Award. James is a very picky eater, he doesn't really seem to like much of anything. His father invents wild stories about how the food was prepared to get him to eat.
a) This is actually a chapter book, five chapters, each containing one story of James' dad getting him to eat by telling a story about trolls cooking the lasagne or oatmeal growing. The il...more
Picture books: Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: Winner of the 2012 Geisel Award. James is a very picky eater, he doesn't really seem to like much of anything. His father invents wild stories about how the food was prepared to get him to eat.
a) This is actually a chapter book, five chapters, each containing one story of James' dad getting him to eat by telling a story about trolls cooking the lasagne or oatmeal growing. The il...more
It's impossible to read Josh Schneider's Tales for Very Picky Eaters without cracking a smile. It has a perfect mix of kid appeal (general silliness, fun illustrations) and parental approval (basically, telling kids that they should eat their mushroom lasagna, oatmeal, and other hated foods. Told in very short chapters, this is about a boy who is, as the title suggests, a very picky eater. But everytime he tells his dad he doesn't want to eat something, his dad gives him a compelling reason not...more
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Citation: Tales for Very Picky Eaters, by Josh Schneider. (Clarion books, 2011). 47p. Controlled Vocabulary.
Genre: Picture Book – Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: Tales for Very Picky Eaters is a story of a boy who does not like disgusting broccoli, smelly lasagna, repulsive milk, lumpy oatmeal, and slimy eggs. James asks his father what else there is to eat and his father lists things such as dirt, socks, and trolls.
A. One of the best things about the book is the creative illustrations.
B. The ill...more
Genre: Picture Book – Controlled Vocabulary
Summary: Tales for Very Picky Eaters is a story of a boy who does not like disgusting broccoli, smelly lasagna, repulsive milk, lumpy oatmeal, and slimy eggs. James asks his father what else there is to eat and his father lists things such as dirt, socks, and trolls.
A. One of the best things about the book is the creative illustrations.
B. The ill...more
From someone who was often late to 1st grade due to a loathing of oatmeal, congratulation to Mr. Schneider on a book I wish I had written! I enjoyed everything about this book--the illustrations, the reverse psychology, the remembered revulsion of disGUSTing--bleck!!! food... I can now enjoy oatmeal, but slimy eggs are still off the charts, shiver/nausea inducing, PLEASE do not serve me these! I mean, just think of that bit of uncooked egg white and the feel of it on our tongue. Ooooh. Gross. (I...more
This book belongs to the controlled vocabulary genre.
This book is about a picky eater. He is faced with several yucky alternative (like sweaty socks) and ultimately decides that broccoli isn't so bad after all.
The theme in this book that all children (and some adults) can relate to. Schneider writes in a way that allows the children to be engaged and view the situation form the children's point of view. He might even convince some children that broccoli isn't as bad as sweaty socks, and they m...more
This book is about a picky eater. He is faced with several yucky alternative (like sweaty socks) and ultimately decides that broccoli isn't so bad after all.
The theme in this book that all children (and some adults) can relate to. Schneider writes in a way that allows the children to be engaged and view the situation form the children's point of view. He might even convince some children that broccoli isn't as bad as sweaty socks, and they m...more
James is grossed out by lumpy oatmeal, broccoli, milk, and mushroom lasagna. James and his father just can't see eye-to-eye when it comes to his meal-time choices. After realizing his baseball fun, his dog's livelihood, and even the career of a troll all hang in the balance due to his mealtime choices, James soon comes to see that father knows best.
A fun, imaginative tale for older readers who couldn't get enough of Laura Numeroff's (Laura Numeroff) stories. Another great writing prompt for imag...more
A fun, imaginative tale for older readers who couldn't get enough of Laura Numeroff's (Laura Numeroff) stories. Another great writing prompt for imag...more
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