| | A Day at the Market |  | Author: Sara Anderson
Publisher: Handprint
Category: Book
Buy New: $17.26
New (3) Used (5) from $16.12
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1982556
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Board book
Edition: Board
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.2 x 0.6
ASIN: B000W7FB3W
Publication Date: March 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book
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Product Description
From the early morning fruit vendors hawking their wares to a quiet morning spent savoring a cup of hot chocolate, from the glistening, silvery salmon announced by a fishmonger's bellow to the silent halls as they're hosed down one last time by the night workers, the full experience of a farmer's market is reflected in Sara Anderson's signature cut-paper style and pitch-perfect voice. Set in the halls of Seattle's fabled Pike Place Market, a place Sara Anderson has shopped and loved for almost a quarter of a century, the book vividly recreates the cacophony, variety, joy, and life that can be found in every market across the land.
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Most wonderful book November 23, 2007
We received this book as a gift, and I am purchasing it on Amazon as a gift for another friend. It is one of the most beautiful books I have seen - both visually and literally. The illustrations are stunning - vibrant colors, slightly abstract nature, she even shows all races and ages when painting people - lovely! The rhyming text is wonderful - not your run-of-the-mill children's rhymes, but more like poetry...."empty crates, stack 'em around, button mushrooms on the ground...". She also gives an excellent story depicting the real life of an active farmer's market, and obviously has personal knowledge of Pike's Place Market, using some of the vendor's real names. I highly recommend this book for any age child - I am reading it to my 16 month old daughter and she loves it!
A wonderful feast for the eyes August 3, 2006
While the rhyming text to this book is fresh and fun, the real joy in sharing this book with your child comes from the amazing colorful pictures in vibrant colors that cover every page. Beautiful!
To market, to market July 12, 2006
Sometimes you know a place so well, you memorize it like a song in your heart. Such is Anderson's obvious feel for Seattle's Pike Place Market, where she's lived and shopped and created for 25 years.
Open this dazzling book and plunge into the bustling farmer's market, where vendors hawk and customers scurry and even a hobo dumpster dives. Color explodes off pages of cut paper, with windows that offer peeps into other pages and crowded new vistas.
I've visited this national treasure only once, as a special treat for my 40th birthday. Our pixelated photos can't do justice to what Anderson captures with rhyming text that rips along in a syncopated approximation of street noises and market chatter:
Bakers baking,
heaven lingers ...
Plain or frosted?
Cinnamon fingers.
In a word: Yummy.
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