Description: Baker's peas are back in this "pea-quel" to the "New York Times"-bestselling "LMNO Peas." Like the first book, this one is filled with unique jobs, activities, roles, and hobbies. But this time the peas are bouncing through the "lowercase" alphabet. Full color.
Brief description: Keith Baker has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, Little Green Peas, Hap-pea All Year, LMNO Pea-quel, My Octopus Arms, and No Two Alike. He lives in Washington state.
Review Quotes: Baker's industrious pea-ple are back for a fifth tour, this time delivering an A-to-Z look at work and play. Colorful, digitally textured lowercase letters loom large against white space, cleverly integrated into the action. Firefighters use a ladder truck to train a hose on a small fire high atop the letter F. An S--strapped to the roof of a school bus filled with book-toting students--sports a row of saluting soldiers up on top. Among the standard community helpers, from architects to window washers, Baker inserts a bit of whimsy: there are pirates, a queen, and five "X-Peas" exhibiting their superpowers. There's some deliberate, anthropomorphized diversity: a violinist is female (or at least has a ponytail) and uses a wheelchair; one soldier appears female (with hair in a bun), and most work crews have some female peas (so to speak)....there's fun for kids to discover here--from the vegetable horde's teeming activities to a ladybug that appears on each double-page spread...--Kirkus Reviews