picture book - pizza shop workers with six arms, possible counting theme

[Tesh]

I have this memory of an illustration with pizza workers/delivery drivers, in a sort of pizza shop uniform, who had six arms, or multiple arms. The book/story was a little zany like that all throughout.
Would love to find out what it was.

[Tesh]

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[Tab]

How many years ago did you read this?
Were the illustrations colorful, full page, etc?

[Adele]

There's a book If Mom Had Three Arms where a little boy imagines his mom with more and more arms all the way up to twenty and she does something different for each number. She doesn't make or deliver pizza though. However, she does cook pancakes in a chef's outfit with 11 arms. For six arms she is doing sculpture and also holding a painter's palette. You can see the whole book on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/8-ytKqa6XT0

[Tesh]

Tab wrote: "How many years ago did you read this?
Were the illustrations colorful, full page, etc?"

It would have been between roughly 1998 to 2005 that I read it, and the book wouldn't have been any older than 10-15 years.

At least some of the illustrations had a white/blank background, like on this book cover Billy's Beetle, and colourful probably coloured pencil/watercolour illustrations.

Adele wrote: "There's a book If Mom Had Three Arms where a little boy imagines his mom with more and more arms all the way up to twenty and she does something different for each number. She doesn't..."

Thanks Adele. Not the book I'm looking for, but has a similar craziness :)

[Tesh]

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[Rainbowheart]

Hi, Pizza Man?

Not sure if any of the pizza delivery creatures have six arms, but the cover kinda makes it look like they do.

[Tesh]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Hi, Pizza Man?

Not sure if any of the pizza delivery creatures have six arms, but the cover kinda makes it look like they do."

Thanks for the suggestion. That's not the book though.

I was thinking recently and I think the book may have had a counting theme integrated into the plot. So the pizza workers were introduced for #6, and later numbers/pages might have had aliens and/or monsters with e.g. 8 arms.

[Kris]

Tesh, I'd suggest searching on Worldcat.org. For example:

https://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
Keywords: illustrations pizza [etc.]
Year range
Juvenile, Fiction, Book, English

[Rainbowheart]

Maybe also try looking through this list?

Counting Books

[Rainbowheart]

Still looking, Tesh?

[Tesh]

Yes. I did look through the Counting Books list last year - thankyou - but couldn't see it.

[Rainbowheart]

Anything on this list?

Pizza! Pizza!