How Do You Raise a Raisin?

PreS-Gr. 2. Sticky and sweet, raisins are such a universally popular snack that they comes in boxes sized to fit a child's hand and have travelled to outer space with astronauts. In lighthearted, four-line rhyming queries, Ryan wonders where and how raisins grow and how they get from grape vines to grocery stores. Her questions are answered in no-nonsense text, with raisins' nutritional benefits, product development, and a little raisin history spelled out at the book's end. Brown's robustly coloured art, with bold black lines and stippled details, energises the text, depicting rows of grapevines stretching to the California horizon as well as the cutting, drying, and collecting processes. His whimsical pictures often play with the humorous rhymes, as when a contented raisin soaks in a tub of purple bubble bath with a yellow rubber duck. The no-bake recipes for raisin treats are a bonus to this delectable book, which, like its subject, packs a lot of value into a small package. Ellen Mandel
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