Nearby, a barbershop quartet, a Wagnerian soloist, a showering pea and a dancing “Peayoncé” add to the fun. “SEVENTY peas singing” provide a bevy of details to spy: A fab foursome (the Peatles) rocks out above a chorus and director. Baker circumvents those oft-pesky ’teens in one deft double-page spread: “Eleven to nineteen- skip, skip, skip!” Then it’s a double-page spread per decade, with peas traveling, napping, watching fireworks and more. At “TEN peas building- pound, pound, pound,” the peas erect a wooden platform around the numeral-mainly, it would seem, as an excuse for exuberantly hammering dozens of nails. “ONE pea searching- look, look, look, / TWO peas fishing- hook, hook, hook.” Those numerals rise sky-high (to peas, at least) to dominate the digitally composed visuals, often serving as props for the frenzy of vegetative activity. After an alphabetical, rhyming tour de force ( LMNO Peas, 2010), Baker’s energetic pea pack is back-this time, to count by ones and 10s.īaker sidesteps the trickiness of rhyming the numerals by selecting a repeating word for each short verse.
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