Fast Food

by Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers

Fruits and vegetables leap off the plate and off the page in Saxton Freymann's fast-paced tribute to things that GO!

When you see piles of veggies lying sedately around the corner store, you'd never guess all that produce really wants to go, go, GO! But Saxton Freymann did, and he's transformed those basking berries and lazy legumes into vehicles of every size and speed. Kids everywhere will thrill over the array of transportation methods on display, from enormous rockets and grand ocean liners to the simplest mechanism of your feet. And as always, Freymann's clever vegetable sculptures delight the eye and tickle the funny bone. Hurry up and grab some FAST FOOD!

Genres: Picture Books, Food, Childrens, Transport, Art, Storytime, Fiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau]

In this case playing with your food really is the right thing to do (sorry mom). But this might be a way to get a small child who does not like vegetables to eat more of them; after reading the book with them you could have them build some of the veggie models in this book! Nice ideas for parties too!

[Rod Brown]

Lively little couplets take us through various modes of transportation, all sculpted from items you'd find in a grocery store's produce section.

It's fun to look at the details of the food sculptures and tempting to give it a go yourself.

[Corinne]

I remember reading this... vaguely. Pictures are so cool though! Very cute.

[Dave]

Charming and playful. Recognizes the importance of public transportation. Is spaghetti squash still popular? Is that why they turned it into a bus?

[Erin]

Fast Food takes the reader through various modes of transportation, from feet clad with ice skates, to helicopters, to hot-air balloons, and much, much more, all using creative and unique edible art. The food sculptures are obviously the stars of this book, but the story flows rather nicely as well as it goes through each mode of transportation using a catchy rhyming scheme. Children will love seeing how each piece of food is transformed to make various objects, cute little characters full of personality, and their detailed surroundings. This book would be a great teaching tool to talk about food or nutrition, introduce various kinds of produce, and talk about different things that “go.” Children will definitely enjoy this book and the visual delights within, and who knows, it may even inspire some to eat their veggies!

[Alicia]

I love this book. Don't let the title fool you, it is about different kinds of vehicles and all the pictures are made out of food. I've heard lots of people say that the book helps encourage their picky eaters because it is so much more fun to eat banana when it's really an airplane or zucchini when it is a train. This is a book the whole family can enjoy. Check out other books by the same author.

[Malea Potter]

This is a very fun book. It teaches kids about different ways we can get from one place to another, but uses unusual illustrations that are colorful, and interesting. You could also talk about different kinds of fruits and veggies as you read this book to kids. I was thinking I wanted to try to make some of those things as I read, or at least do some kind of craft with produce. This was a fun book and one I would recommend owning.

[Halli]

After reading the title, you would think this book is about fast food as in talking about food in a fast food restaurant; but no. This book is adorable in how the illustrator turns the food into bikes, cars, roller blades, etc and shows the many different types of transportation through food. The pictures are really neat in the sense that they look real! They look as though they are a photograph.

[Rima Aroutiounian]

"Fast Food" has vivid illustration made from FOOD! Isn't that great! The book also has sentences that rhyme and are in different colors. Children will relate to the book because they see things in it they will recognize. Great for print motivation. "Pedal hard aboard a bike, add a wheel, and its a strike!"

[Karissa Weekes]

When I first picked up this book I thought that it was going to be about fast food like McDonald teaching nutrition but it wasn't it is a play on words because it about how different foods can be turned into cars and that they all travel fast! This was a very entertaining book and I know kids would love it.

[Melissa Dwyer]

Originally rated G+ by Cathy Horowitz
Students enjoyed finishing rhymes, and identifying fruits and vegetables used in vehicles and their drivers. Bold colors on an uncluttered solid background and clever, creative and colorful photographs add to the visual appeal. By the authors of How are you Peeling? and Food for Thought. A fun new twist on the old transportation theme. Students loved it.

[Barbara]

Somebody is spending way too much time with their vegetables! But I love these 'vegie' picture books and calendars ...who knew that purple cabbage would make a perfect ocean? And the zucchini trains and buses...
This book is really about transportation with pictures made from food.

[Elizabeth]

A clever book about transportation that is illustrated by cut and decorated fruits & vegetables. Kids and adults enjoy how Saxton and Joost use their imaginations. If you enjoy this one, there are several others by these authors!

[Prw41894]

I liked how the colors really struck out from the vegetables. It was creative and gives kids a sense of connection between colors, food and transportation. Each food was cut into a form of transportation which made it enjoyable to read!

[Bailee May]

This was seriously so cute! I loved seeing the pictures and watching how creative the veggies/fruit were put together. It was about different ways you could travel and it was all made by food. Super easy read and I think kids would find this cool.

[Katie Hibbard]

This book was very clever! I loved the pictures; I never though fruit could travel so quickly! I especially liked the "banana plane". This is a great book to teach children different ways to travel, and the pictures will entertain everyone!

[Maimoona Albar]

Great book to encourage children to eat vegetables, and it gives parents idea how to cut them in a funny way. I like how the title is the opposite from what readers will expect. Also I like how the illustrations use real pictures which make children more likely to eat the vegetables.

[Cindy]

I love this book! all sort of transportation, all made out of fruits and vegetables. The bus is great and so is the wheelchair.

CMB

[Melanie]

My kids love these "food" books by Saxton Freymann. This has a clever rhyme about how we get from here to there. We also like the one about emotions called "How are You Peeling?"

[Shareena]

Super cool illustrations

[Emma]

Cah-yute!

[Dylan & Belle at LearnPlayFun]

Rated and reviewed by Dylan, age 7:

This book is about how to make vehicles out of food. You can make an airplane out of a banana.
My favorite part was the mushroom guy.

[Jaime Ann Sanborn]

Saxton Freymann is an artistic genius! His fruit and vegetable art makes reading his books engaging and exciting. This is a great book for teaching kids about different ways to get around.

[Karen]

So clever!

[Beth Kakuma-Depew]

my sons think everything Saxton Freymann does is amazing. And anything with wheels are cool. Thus, this book is amazingly cool.

[Sarah Lewis]

Cleverly depicted scenes using fruits and vegetables.

[Trisan]

fun graphics!

[Deatrice]

It is amazing how much imagination has been applied to create the scenes for this book. The rhymes are lyrical and entertaining. My children and I give this book 2 huge thumbs up!

[Julie Surface]

It was hysterical!
Fast food was about different types of food doing things like riding a bike, running, walking, you name it. it even showed funny images of food rowing boats.

[Vidya]

Very creative. Very imaginative. Catches attention of all ages, mom's, dad's, boys, girls, illustations are very different and unique. Love this book.