FOOD PLAY

By Joost Elffers & Saxton Freyman
2006
320 pages

This is a compact collection of over 300 images from a decade spent playing with food (and then photographing the results). If you haven't already seen some of the authors' books, you've probably stumbled across their images at some point over the last ten years. The author/artists simple carvings of fruits and vegetables create some of the funniest, most beautiful, and thought-provoking images you'll see. This book, which has no words, will generate many laughs and conversations between you and your children as you look at the pictures. It's great for exploring one's own feelings, and learning how to read the feelings of other 'people'. I found it very interesting to hear what my three-year-old daughter thought the different produce were thinking and doing - she will often come up with little stories describing the relationships between one piece of fruit and another.