The Seven Silly Eaters

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Summary: So much fun!
Review: My 2-year-old daughter loves this book. The rhyme is fun to read and the illustrations are fantastic (and show much more of this family than the words describe). She regularly asks to read the "Silly Peters", laughs all the way through, and loves to chime in on "Mrs. Peters was a wreck!" What a find!!!

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Summary: Seven Stars!
Review: My all time favorite book......the illustrations are wonderful and there is so much going on in the scenes that my daughters were mesmerized as I read. The rhyming lyrics are funny, and the whole concept of each of the children having their own fussy way of eating is quite cute. They drive their mom nuts, of course, but in the end, the make her a surprise that is truly dee-lish :)

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Summary: My new favorite
Review: My son (4 1/2)and I love this book. I am an elementary teacher and have read a lot of books, this one is a fun, intricate literary work. I bought it based on the subject, I happen to have a very picky eater! My son pours over the pictures and I enjoy reading the clever rhymes. It is the first book I ask to read to him, and he has learned what it means to enjoy and love books and reading. I have a couple of books that I still cherish from my childhood, and I have a feeling this will be one of his!

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Summary: My daughters absolute favorite book!
Review: The ryhmes, the silliness, the fun have made "The Seven Silly Eaters" a consistent hit in our house for years now. I used to read it to my daughter, now that she can read, she reads it regularly to her little sister. This is definitely not one of those books you buy and then only read once or twice - a must buy.

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Summary: Our family's favorite!
Review: This book is my family's favorite. Our first copy was paperback and was read so many times it started to fall apart. My husband loves reading it to the kids so much that I got HIM the hardback copy. It is pure fun to read out loud, and we all end up laughing no matter how many times we've heard it. We're now getting enough copies of it to give each child their own when they get older so they can share it with their kids (or just read it for the fun of it). We also gave a copy to our youngest child's class as a Christmas present. The idea for the book is wonderful. The pictures in this book are so detailed that you find something new each time you look at them. The story is a delight and the rhymes are amazing. This family (kids and adults alike) will cherish this book and the humor it delivers for the rest of our lives.

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Summary: Seven Silly Eaters
Review: This book is my family's favorite. Our first copy was paperback and was read so many times it started to fall apart. My husband loves reading it to the kids so much that I got HIM the hardback copy. It is pure fun to read out loud, and we all end up laughing no matter how many times we've heard it. We're now getting enough copies of it to give each child their own when they get older so they can share it with their kids (or just read it for the fun of it). We also gave a copy to our youngest child's class as a Christmas present. The idea for the book is wonderful. The pictures in this book are so detailed that you find something new each time you look at them. The story is a delight and the rhymes are amazing. This family (kids and adults alike) will cherish this book and the humor it delivers for the rest of our lives.

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Summary: Our family's favorite book!
Review: We have bookshelves full of great children's books and THIS book is one of our top 5 picks EVER! I think the four members of our family all love this book for different reasons. My 4 1/2 year old loves the characters and following each one through from page to page as they grow, keeping track of their silly antics. My 2 year old son likes the sound of the words...and has fun pointing at all the familiar things he see's in the Peter's house that we have in our house too. I love this book for the fantastic illustrations, the descriptive and fun-to-read verse, and also for the way it makes the hecticness of having small children in the house seem so normal! And even though it's a children's fiction picture book, I always finish reading it with the feeling of "well, I only have two silly eaters! I can handle THAT!". HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

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Summary: The Seven Silly Eaters
Review: When you rate a children book (one that is meant to be read aloud) you rate the book from your point of view as the vocal reader and not necessarily from the kids point of view. How was the reading from your "reading" side? is it one of the books you hate having to go through or is it fun for you as well? this book is definitely a "10" for all participants. The fatigued mother (sorry fathers, the mother is the heroine here), reading the book at the end of her full day and receiving in this book something to address her side and problems (in picture and rhyme) and the child who enjoys reading about other children funny as himself - and always loves to hear about large families. Former reviewers have saluted the rhymes of Mary Ann Hoberman but I would like to honor the great drawings of Marla Frazee. The story evolves from one drawing to the next, through time passing by - portrayed by changing seasons (Summer - bathing in the lake, Autumn - falling leaves), the mother continuous pregnencies, the part of her hobby (playing the chello) in her life - central when she had one child and then forgotten all together (thrown aside) and again appearing in the end of the story. I find it always interesting (and credible) to hear about other people's problems and this is what I feel when I look at the drawings - their house is also in a constant state of a mess (although she does do her best...), the loads of laundry... the ever lasting need to go to the store, fill the house with food (mother and father are again seen with bags of groceries), isn't that what you do all day? very real and very satisfying. I cannot comment much about the rhymes as I read the (beautiful) Hebrew translation but I am sure the translator had a great original to translate from.... I would like to stress again how I love the REALITY of this book - the kids and the house life are so normal. Nothing too pretty or cute - not the kids (each one with his own personality and each one with his own craving), and not the crowded house - diaper changing on the floor, one kid is in the toilet, seven beds in one room. You might argue about the reality of the ending but this is an ending I am sure we all wish for and a perfect ending to this perfect book.