Product Description

A big pot, some heat, and lots of popcorn. . . . When the corn starts popping, the fun gets hopping for a boy, a girl, and their grown-up pals, who tend the stove. But when will the popping stop? Betsy Everitts energetic illustrations add bold spice to this lighthearted rhyming recipe for a culinary adventure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #592305 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-08
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .13" h x 6.38" w x 8.44" l, .16 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 1-A simple rhyme and vibrant illustrations show what can happen when a group of children and their animal friends put too many kernels in the pot. The text, designed for beginning readers, is limited to a line or two per page and positioned under framed illustrations. The artwork, done predominately in pastel colors, depicts the chaos and confusion that ensues when the popping won't stop. Use this book with Jane Thayer's The Popcorn Dragon (Morrow, 1989) to enhance science or cooking lessons, or pair it with Tomie dePaola's The Popcorn Book (Holiday, 1978) to learn the history behind this tasty subject.
Kit Vaughan, J. B. Watkins Elementary School, Midlothian, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 1. Popcorn is an energetic subject, and Everitt, with her cheeky, New Wave artistic style, is just the right illustrator for this simple yet lively text. Step by step, a young girl and her friends (including a very large pink rabbit) make popcorn: "Popcorn. Popcorn. / Put it in a pot. / Popcorn. Popcorn. / Get the pot hot." By the last spread, it's popcorn everywhere, popping across the pages--" catch it if you can." The bordered pictures against expanses of white show off their sassy sensibility in hot purples, pinks, green, and blues. This Green Light Reader is just what an easy-reader should be. Ilene Cooper

From Kirkus Reviews
This entry in a series for very new readers has few words and clear rhymes: ``Popcorn. Popcorn./Put it in a pot./Popcorn. Popcorn./Get the pot hot.'' In a Fauvist kitchen, a multicolored cast of characterspurple and blue dogs, a fuchsia cat, a boy and a girl (he's African-American; she's Latina) put those kernels in a big kettle. ``Popcorn. Popcorn./Pop! Pop! Pop!/Popcorn. Popcorn./Stop! Stop! Stop!'' The fluffy kernels spill out the door into the green and gold world, where other folk come to get their own bags full. ``Popcorn. Popcorn./Get it while it's hot./We are happy./We like it a lot.'' Children who are just beginning to master the connection of word to object will adore this, and marvel that they can, indeed, read it. (Picture book. 5-9) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.