How Are You Peeling?: Foods with Moods (1999)

by Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers

Series: Play With Your Food

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Brief text and photographs of carvings made from vegetables introduce the world of emotions by presenting leading questions such as "Are you feeling angry?"

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sweetiegherkin: Very different art styles (cartoonish drawings versus photography), but both books are designed to get children thinking about the different kinds of emotions out there and naming them. The Feelings Book is a little more basic and thus better for younger audiences while How Are You Peeling? has more advanced vocabulary (and a greater depth of feelings exploration) so it's more appropriate for a slightly older audience.… (more)

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I liked Fast Food by this same creative team with all it's fun and clever vehicles, but the focus on faces here leaves me a bit perturbed. Most of the emotions in this book of moods are negative, so I'm staring at a lot of unhappy and angry fruit and vegetables. Many of them seem downright evil in their expressions. And even the happy faces seem a bit creepy.

Frankly, my mood is worse after reading this book than it was before.

But my daughter liked this book when she was three, so probably other kids will too. (

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villemezbrown | Sep 25, 2024 |

This funny picture book can be a fun read for students. It goes through different images of fruit and vegetables that have been made to look like faces. I would recommend this book to 3rd and up grades because this is an easy read but its also for more mature elementary grades due to the pictures. I could see students in my classroom reading this together, building reading skills.

millerk22 | Apr 17, 2024 |

- Age: Primary

- About foods and moods

- I would not have this in my classroom as the pictures are kind of scary.

sabmcd | Mar 20, 2024 |

excellent - Katrina

hcs_admin | Apr 12, 2023 |

-good as uses vegetables to show emotions, bit of humour (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Freymann, Saxton	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Elffers, Joost	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

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Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee – 2001)

Flicker Tale Award (Nominee – Early-Primary Grades Non-Fiction – 2006)

New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books (1999)

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CCBC Choices (2000)

NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (13th Edition: 1999-2001)

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How Are You Peeling?: Foods with Moods

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1999

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For Mia, Eyck, Finn, and Elodie, with love beyond words and vegetables S.F.
For Oekie and in memory of Afrie Jansma. Early on the Jansma family showed me the world of play. J.E.

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How are you feeling?

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Brief text and photographs of carvings made from vegetables introduce the world of emotions by presenting leading questions such as "Are you feeling angry?"

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This book about feelings has some of the coolest illustrations ever! As the narration asks you about your moods and emotions, the feelings are illustrated by pictures of fruits and vegetables. Saxton Freymann used real fruits and vegetable, modifying them just enough to add eyes (black-eyed peas) and mouths (carvings or beet juice) in order to create facial expressions for each emotion. The effect is incredible! The "face" to a great job showing emotions ranging from happiness to anger, relief to jealousy. Children and adults alike will be amazed.

If you liked this story, you may also enjoy "Today I Feel Silly" by Jamie Lee Curtis. It is also a children's book about feelings.

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