Snack attack! Terry Border.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524740115
- ISBN: 152474011X
- Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Publisher: New York Philomel Books, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date, binding, and paging may vary |
Target Audience Note: | 3-7 years 520L Lexile Decoding demand: 49 (medium) Semantic demand: 71 (high) Syntactic demand: 77 (high) Structure demand: 84 (very high) Lexile Grades K-2. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 2.9 0.5 504609. |
Awards Note: | 2021-2022 Show Me Reader Award Winner. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Snack foods > Juvenile fiction. Monsters > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Picture books. Humorous fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Show Me Readers. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pulaski County Library-Waynesville | E Bor (Text) | 33642000712059 | WAY Stories | Available | - |
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Kirkus Review
Snack Attack!
Kirkus Reviews
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The snacks are under attack!Border's photography anthropomorphizes a pink sugar wafer, a pretzel, and a cheese doodlenot with facial features but with limbs and spectacles made of bent wire. The three sentient foodstuffs escape from their respective packaging and encounter a note left for a child ("a kind of monster," explains Cookie) reading, in part: "I left you some snacks because I'll be late. Love Mom." Alarmed, the trio tries to figure out how to avoid such fates as being dipped in milk, snapped in two, or gulped. Border's photographic scenes humorously depict each calamitous scenario in a kitchen setting scaled like that of Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants (1988). While the pretzel thinks it makes itself sufficiently unappetizing by rolling around on the floor for six seconds, Cookie says the five-second rule "only works with Monster Moms. Not Monster Kids." Hiding in a cheese grater causes minor injury, prompting Cheese Doodle to say, "I don't feel greater.It's really a cheese worser!" That's just one instance of wordplay in the silly story, which culminates with the snacks forging a different note for the child: "DEAR KID, Please drink some water and eat NOTHING ELSE. From your loving Momma." When the kid returns home, it initially seems the trick works, but a twist ending suggests that's not the way the cookie crumbles.Satisfyingly silly. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.