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How Martha Saved Her Parents From Green Beans
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THEY'RE MEAN.
THEY'RE GREEN.
THEY'RE THE BADDEST BEANS AROUND.
"Green beans are good for you. Green beans will make you big and strong." Martha doesn't believe what her parents tell her. And nothing will ever--EVER--make her eat them.
But when some beady-eyed, boot stomping beans bust into town and start causing trouble, Martha knows she has to take action against this gang of ...more
THEY'RE GREEN.
THEY'RE THE BADDEST BEANS AROUND.
"Green beans are good for you. Green beans will make you big and strong." Martha doesn't believe what her parents tell her. And nothing will ever--EVER--make her eat them.
But when some beady-eyed, boot stomping beans bust into town and start causing trouble, Martha knows she has to take action against this gang of ...more
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Hardcover, 32 pages
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April 18th 2013
by Dial Books for Young Readers
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My 6 year old loved this book and she hates veggies. What better recommendation can you get?
This is a creative little story with some great illustrations
This is a FANTASTIC picture book. This is so much fun and so creative!
Another book illustrated by Mark Fearing as I continue to follow his work. The cover of this and the title made this one just jump into my hands. Martha's family has green beans for dinner EVERY Tuesday. Martha has never eaten a green bean and never will. They are BAD - VERY BAD! The cover of the book shows tall, mustachioed, booted, mean looking green beans and Martha was right - they are bad. "A gang of mean green beans swaggered into town." They chased old ladies, attacked teachers at school,
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This is the saga of Martha, her kidnapped parents, and the meanest green beans around. Martha hates eating green beans, a weekly family tradition. She is happy when she finds out the personified veggie villains have taken her parents, but she soon realizes life without her Mom and Dad will be lonely and sad. Martha and the beans have a cartoon stand-off and Martha saves the day by first swallowing her disgust, and then by swallowing green beans.
Upsides: The book is intentionally reminiscent of a ...more
Upsides: The book is intentionally reminiscent of a ...more
This made me think of Creepy Carrots!, but the green beans weren't torturing or gaslighting the main character like in that book. Well, kinda. They kidnapped her parents. Lol, I would *not* recommend this book to parents trying to get their kids to eat green beans. This would have the *opposite* effect
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Ordered our first Amazon Prime Book Subscription and picked this book as one of the two we could choose.
Greatly written and great illustrations. Who wouldn't want to fight a vegetable; kids don't want to eat? ...more
Greatly written and great illustrations. Who wouldn't want to fight a vegetable; kids don't want to eat? ...more
I chuckled out loud reading this. A girl who hates green beans has to save her parents from a group of ornery beans. An unlikely hero steps up to save her loved ones. I'd love to read more from the author.
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A fun read-aloud with a clever spin on why you should eat your vegetables.
I read this to my Summer Reading Children & to my nieces. Very cute little story!
Adroable! For every kid (and adult) who hates green beans!
i hate green beans. i knew they were evil. i'm not sure i could eat them even to save my parents. yuck!! (age 5)
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Hilarious ending
Huge hit with students! A silly story about a girl who hates green beans and her opportunity to get revenge on them when they kidnap her green bean loving parents.
Really fun story, and my preschoolers loved it.
Big fun!
4.5- Oh this book is a hoot! I kept hearing western showdown music playing in the back of my mind as I read it. Great story, great illustrations.
The illustrations were my favorite part of this book about a little girl who doesn’t like green beans especially when they kidnap her parents!
Very clever and funny
3 1/2 stars.
So cute! Book is about being courageous and conquering your fears.
Mama read this to me tonight. It was a really silly book, and reminded me of Dan Yaccarino's The Lima Bean Monster - I love evil veggie books!
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It's Not Easy Being Green
I usually don't buy books like this online on spec. I read an ARC or look at the book at the library or check it out and buy it at a bookstore. Kid picture books are just too pricey for taking flyers. But I couldn't resist this one, and I'm glad I didn't.
The whole Martha-hates-green-beans thing suggested we might be heading into precious territory. The whole kids-hate-vegetables cliche has never appealed to me as a surefire laugher. We're giving this to a grandchild who ...more
I usually don't buy books like this online on spec. I read an ARC or look at the book at the library or check it out and buy it at a bookstore. Kid picture books are just too pricey for taking flyers. But I couldn't resist this one, and I'm glad I didn't.
The whole Martha-hates-green-beans thing suggested we might be heading into precious territory. The whole kids-hate-vegetables cliche has never appealed to me as a surefire laugher. We're giving this to a grandchild who ...more
Title: How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans
Author/Illustrator: David LaRochelle & Mark Fearing
Genre: Fantasy, Picture Storybook
Themes: Picky eaters
Plot Summary: Martha, a young girl, and her mom and dad eat green beans with their dinner on Tuesdays. Martha hates green beans. One Tuesday, with Martha unaware of how mean green beans could be, a gang of green beans barged into her house, tied up her parents, and took them away! At first, Martha was enjoying her parents not being home for a ...more
Author/Illustrator: David LaRochelle & Mark Fearing
Genre: Fantasy, Picture Storybook
Themes: Picky eaters
Plot Summary: Martha, a young girl, and her mom and dad eat green beans with their dinner on Tuesdays. Martha hates green beans. One Tuesday, with Martha unaware of how mean green beans could be, a gang of green beans barged into her house, tied up her parents, and took them away! At first, Martha was enjoying her parents not being home for a ...more
In Martha's family Tuesday nights mean green beans for dinner. Martha hates green beans and refuses to eat them. Every Tuesday her parents give her reasons why green beans are good and they she should, therefore, eat them.
Martha is proven right when a band of very bad green beans--complete with tattoos, villainous handlebar moustaches and wearing cowboy boots invade the town. They are on a mission of revenge: to capture anyone ...more
"They are both wrong," thought Martha.
"Green beans are bad. Very bad."
Martha is proven right when a band of very bad green beans--complete with tattoos, villainous handlebar moustaches and wearing cowboy boots invade the town. They are on a mission of revenge: to capture anyone ...more
With a title like this, I really wasn’t sure what to expect from this book but the cover told me that it was going to be a bit wacky.
Like many of us, Martha’s parents plan dinner on something of a schedule. Every single Tuesday, Martha’s family had green beans. For my son, this would have been a good thing but not for Martha. Martha’s parents assured her that green beans are good for her. They explained that they would make her strong.
Martha wasn’t buying it. Martha knew deep down that green bea ...more
Like many of us, Martha’s parents plan dinner on something of a schedule. Every single Tuesday, Martha’s family had green beans. For my son, this would have been a good thing but not for Martha. Martha’s parents assured her that green beans are good for her. They explained that they would make her strong.
Martha wasn’t buying it. Martha knew deep down that green bea ...more
Martha doesn’t want to eat her green beans at dinner. Her parents keep telling her how wonderful they are, but she really doesn’t want anything to do with them. One night as she is sitting and staring at the cold green beans on her plate (she is supposed to keep sitting there until she eats them even though her parents finished dinner ages ago), she hears a noise. When she goes to the other room she sees a note that the green beans have taken her parents. At first Martha is excited that she can
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I loved the unique story line in this book with the green beans being the bad guys. I think we all have kids who think that one particular food is horrible and would love to have a reprieve from eating it. I really enjoyed how the green beans were portrayed as being the enemy and being the bad guys. The pictures of them throughout the book are hilarious and just what we would imagine them to be as the bad g ...more
I loved the unique story line in this book with the green beans being the bad guys. I think we all have kids who think that one particular food is horrible and would love to have a reprieve from eating it. I really enjoyed how the green beans were portrayed as being the enemy and being the bad guys. The pictures of them throughout the book are hilarious and just what we would imagine them to be as the bad g ...more
I liked this more than I had expected to. Martha is left alone at the dinner table with a plateful of green beans. Martha refuses to eat them because "...[g]reen beans are bad. Very bad." Soon Martha discovers just how bad they are when a gang of mean green beans kidnap her parents. At first Martha is thrilled to be on her own, but quickly realizes that she misses her parents. After Martha saves her parents, it's decided that they'll forgo green beans for corn on the cob, broccoli, and a nice le
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Martha swears that green beans are horrible, vile things, but her parents don't believe her. Not until the night the green beans attack everyone who's ever made someone eat them, carrying off Martha's parents in the process. Now it's up to Martha to save her mom and dad, but it might require a bit of a sacrifice from the bean-averse girl.
This hilarious story is a lot of fun to read aloud, and many children will sympathize with Martha's dislike of green beans -- although some parents may not appr ...more
This hilarious story is a lot of fun to read aloud, and many children will sympathize with Martha's dislike of green beans -- although some parents may not appr ...more
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