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Eat Your Peas.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)

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| September 01, 2000 | Dennis, Lisa | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

GRAY, Kes. Eat Your Peas. illus. by Nick Sharratt. unpaged. DK Ink. Sept. 2000. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-7894-2667-6. LC number unavailable.

PreS-K--An engaging if familiar premise fails to please in this one-joke picture book. When Daisy refuses to eat her peas, her mother tries to bribe her. She starts with a conventional ploy-eat your veggies, get dessert. Daisy digs in her heels and Mom's blandishments quickly balloon into the absurd. Daisy won't have to wash, go to bed, or attend school ever again, if only she complies. Her mother will buy her "... every ... bike shop in the world, seventeen swimming pools ... Africa ... the earth, the moon, the stars, the sun...." As …

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