Each peach pear plum : an "I spy" story

Pastiche Alert! This playful novel-in-verse combines a game of "I Spy", with throwbacks to various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters that go down in literary history. Stringing together the first with the last, Janet and Allen Ahlberg create a rhyming referential chain that is paired with

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original illustrations. A charming book that flows with a playful rhythm full of whimsy and fanciful musings. Lovely!

Themes: I Spy, Fairy tales, nursery rhymes, pastiche, rhyme.

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Simple look-and-find book for toddlers with familiar characters and easy rhymes. Fun.

An absolute classic from the Ahlbergs, Each Peach Pear Plum combines an I-spy game with a perfect rhyme for reading aloud and familiar characters from popular fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Guaranteed to hit the spot!

I like how this brings all the characters from all the different nursery rhymes together but in a modest and not radically revisionist way, like it's just trying to add to what's usually seen as a completed canon rather than lampoon or profane or radically overturn it. Honestly, the only reason I

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didn't score it higher was the part with the Three Bears and their guns almost hitting Baby Bunting and I just don't think we should be all fun and jokey about gun accidents like we're watching a tower of cans teeter in the grocery store or something.

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Preschoolers can have "I spy" fun with simpler drawings, thanks to Janet and Allan Ahlbert, masters of remixed nursery and fairy tales. The creators of "The Jolly Postman" have created rhyming pictures book that allows very young children to find some common nursery rhyme or fictional characters.

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Perhaps North American children can be forgiven for finding the Three Bears dressed in hunting tweed a little strange. It's a little disturbing to see Baby Bear walking with a loaded rifle that keeps going off accidentally! Still it's good fun to find things hidden in the pictures - but not too hidden. Best of all, the picnic at the end looks like something everyone would want to join. An excellent read aloud for ages 0-3.

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This is a good book of a few rhyming couplets featuring fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters, perfect length to catch the attention of a young child - and enough detail in the pictures to keep the attention of an older one!

For those people who are concerned about this sort of thing, there are

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some references to "the Wicked Witch" (she's not shown being any more wicked than anybody else, and she eats pie with her neighbors at the end) in the book, and there are also a few images of the three bears being very careless with guns while hunting. I don't find that this hampers our enjoyment of this book, but if these are sensitive topics for your family, you may want to check the book out of the library before committing to a purchase.

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This book is an "I spy" book. Children can look for the things in the pictures that are told in the story. It has old nursery rhyme characters in it and it rhymes as well.
I really enjoyed this book. I believe that it would be exciting for children to interact with the book and find the stuff in

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the pictures. I really enjoyed that aspect of the book.
You could link this book with other "I spy" activities like worksheets and even word searches, depending on the grade leave.

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Genre: Fiction
Media: Water color & ink
Review: This is a simple book on fiction. It tells rhymes that go with well known fairy tail characters. However, it does tell a story and the plot is simple and loved, because it is with such well known characters.

Absolutely my favorite. Great pictures and rhymes. Love the story.

This book unfolds through nursery rhymes. Included in the book are previous characters from nursery rhymes that children may be familar with. This book is simple yet interesting for young children because as the pages turn, more and more nursery rhyme characters are revealed.This book is not my

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favorite but I can see where a child may like this book. Its simple yet common theme seems to catch children's attention. I do not think I would use this book in my classroom but at home I would say this would be a good book for kindergarteners.

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“Each Peach Pear Plum” written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is a fun children’s story. In this story, the narrator “spies” many things. First, Tom Thumb is spied and then Tom Thumb spies Mother Hubbard. The book continues to spy various fairy tale characters such as: Cinderella, the Three

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Bears, Bo-Peep, and Jack and Jill. This is a very simple story and the pictures would help students understand the text. At the end of the story, everyone joins together and eats Plum Pie. This story would be appropriate for Kindergarten or First grade students.

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This is great for younger children. This book puts together poetry and the "I Spy" game all in one. Also the people in the book playing I Spy are nursery rhyme characters. By the end of the story all the characters come together for a picnic.

Very simple rhyming book about finding the various nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale characters hidden around. Eventually they all meet up to have plum pie.

This book is well suited for babies and young preschoolers. It's probably a bit simple for older kids, though.

This book is good for early readers as they are developing their beginning skills. It uses rhymes through actual nursery rhymes to carry an almost poem from one line to the next. One character of a nursery rhyme runs into another and then end up sharing a picture on a page to connect to one

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another. This book has great illustrations that can help children to understand what the context of the words are as they follow along. It also has good lead-ins to the next part of the story as it continues through the book. This is a great choice for rhyming and understanding the concept of sounds.

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Terrific Children's book. Helps children be observant. Provokes conversation.

Beautiful cover and very detailed illustrations are found in this fun picture book reminding me of a wallpaper or painting that you could look at for hours and keep finding new things. The book is somewhat of an “I Spy” as the text indicates something to be found in the accompanying picture.

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The book also mentions fairy tale characters children would recognize from their original stories.

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Sumary: Each Peach Pear Plumb begins with a simple rhyme asking for the reader to play a game. The book begins with a pie on page one and as you continue to read along you have to spy various nursery rhyme characters who are hiding in different places on each page. After the characters are found

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the book ends with all the characters together eating the pie you saw on page one.

Personal Reaction: I love to read this book to small children. It is easy for them and incorporates a game in it which makes it fun.

Teaching Extensions:
1) Each Peach Pear Plumb could be used as a visual recognition lesson for children.
2) Each Peach Pear Plumb could be used as a lesson about rhyming.
3) Each Peach Pear Plumb could be used to teach sharing.

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This book has some lovely illustrations and a nice rhythm, but if the child doesn't recognize the character they will lose interest.

Loved it, especially having to look for the people or things!

This book keeps readers engaged with its rhythm but also the fact that its readers have to be looking for what is being read in the pictures. I would say that this book is appropriate for preschool to kindergarten.

I especially liked the cat gripping the the Wicked Witch's bottom.

Just the thing for midday reading with a toddler. So very much not the thing for bedtime reading with a toddler.

This is a very nicely illustrated book for playing I Spy. Suitable for reading aloud or young readers.

A beautifully illustrated rhyming "I spy" book that makes you very hungry for plum pie! The rhymes will help children learn the sounds of words and patterns in the sounds. Searching for and finding the characters will help children differentiate between objects.