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The Boy Who Loved Bananas

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George Elliott

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Andrej Krystoforski

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	The Boy Who Loved Bananas written by George Elliott illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5714

Hardcover Jacket CAD $17.95 978-1-55337-744-3 Paperback CAD $6.95 978-1-55453-119-6 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell L Grade Level 2/3 Reading Recovery 19 Accelerated Reader 3.4 LG © 2005 4-color 8 x 10 1/2 32 pages	Matthew laughs himself silly one day as he watches the banana-crazy monkeys at the Metro Zoo. That evening, bananas become Matthew's favorite food — and he refuses to eat anything else! Over the next two weeks, he eats so many bananas that he starts to feel funny. He itches and scratches and itches and scratches until … KABLOOEY! Suddenly, Matthew is swinging from trees and shinnying up flagpoles! His parents try everything to stop his monkey business — doctors, veterinarians, herbalists, chiropractors, animal trainers, psychiatrists and even a psychic. But nothing seems to work. Has Matthew gone completely bananas? Awards 2006 Blue Spruce Award, Ontario Library Association, winner 2006 Great Book of the Year, Canadian Toy Testing Council , winner Reviews “Elliott’s straightforward text with its repetitive elements makes this an upbeat and child-pleasing choice, especially for read-alouds. Young audiences will be immensely satisfied with the final double-page illustration and its wordless conclusion.” — School Library Journal, January 2005 “Andrej Krystoforski, an artist in Richmond Hill, Ontario, captures well the book’s theme of the pleasures of simple goofiness with his bright, energetic pen-and-watercolour illustrations … Krystoforski makes certain that many of the minor background characters are silly and vibrant, too, exactly as they would appear to a boy with a frantic imagination and a desire to pursue his enthusiasms to their ends.” — Quill & Quire, March 2005

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	The Boy Who Loved Bananas written by George Elliott illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5714

Hardcover Jacket CAD $17.95 978-1-55337-744-3 Paperback CAD $6.95 978-1-55453-119-6 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell L Grade Level 2/3 Reading Recovery 19 Accelerated Reader 3.4 LG © 2005 4-color 8 x 10 1/2 32 pages	Matthew laughs himself silly one day as he watches the banana-crazy monkeys at the Metro Zoo. That evening, bananas become Matthew's favorite food — and he refuses to eat anything else! Over the next two weeks, he eats so many bananas that he starts to feel funny. He itches and scratches and itches and scratches until … KABLOOEY! Suddenly, Matthew is swinging from trees and shinnying up flagpoles! His parents try everything to stop his monkey business — doctors, veterinarians, herbalists, chiropractors, animal trainers, psychiatrists and even a psychic. But nothing seems to work. Has Matthew gone completely bananas? Awards 2006 Blue Spruce Award, Ontario Library Association, winner 2006 Great Book of the Year, Canadian Toy Testing Council , winner Reviews “Elliott’s straightforward text with its repetitive elements makes this an upbeat and child-pleasing choice, especially for read-alouds. Young audiences will be immensely satisfied with the final double-page illustration and its wordless conclusion.” — School Library Journal, January 2005 “Andrej Krystoforski, an artist in Richmond Hill, Ontario, captures well the book’s theme of the pleasures of simple goofiness with his bright, energetic pen-and-watercolour illustrations … Krystoforski makes certain that many of the minor background characters are silly and vibrant, too, exactly as they would appear to a boy with a frantic imagination and a desire to pursue his enthusiasms to their ends.” — Quill & Quire, March 2005

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	The Boy Who Loved Bananas written by George Elliott illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5714

Hardcover Jacket CAD $17.95 978-1-55337-744-3 Paperback CAD $6.95 978-1-55453-119-6 Grades: PreSchool to 2 Ages: 3 to 7 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell L Grade Level 2/3 Reading Recovery 19 Accelerated Reader 3.4 LG © 2005 4-color 8 x 10 1/2 32 pages	Matthew laughs himself silly one day as he watches the banana-crazy monkeys at the Metro Zoo. That evening, bananas become Matthew's favorite food — and he refuses to eat anything else! Over the next two weeks, he eats so many bananas that he starts to feel funny. He itches and scratches and itches and scratches until … KABLOOEY! Suddenly, Matthew is swinging from trees and shinnying up flagpoles! His parents try everything to stop his monkey business — doctors, veterinarians, herbalists, chiropractors, animal trainers, psychiatrists and even a psychic. But nothing seems to work. Has Matthew gone completely bananas? Awards 2006 Blue Spruce Award, Ontario Library Association, winner 2006 Great Book of the Year, Canadian Toy Testing Council , winner Reviews “Elliott’s straightforward text with its repetitive elements makes this an upbeat and child-pleasing choice, especially for read-alouds. Young audiences will be immensely satisfied with the final double-page illustration and its wordless conclusion.” — School Library Journal, January 2005 “Andrej Krystoforski, an artist in Richmond Hill, Ontario, captures well the book’s theme of the pleasures of simple goofiness with his bright, energetic pen-and-watercolour illustrations … Krystoforski makes certain that many of the minor background characters are silly and vibrant, too, exactly as they would appear to a boy with a frantic imagination and a desire to pursue his enthusiasms to their ends.” — Quill & Quire, March 2005

written by George Elliott

illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski

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Matthew laughs himself silly one day as he watches the banana-crazy monkeys at the Metro Zoo. That evening, bananas become Matthew's favorite food — and he refuses to eat anything else! Over the next two weeks, he eats so many bananas that he starts to feel funny. He itches and scratches and itches and scratches until … KABLOOEY!

Suddenly, Matthew is swinging from trees and shinnying up flagpoles! His parents try everything to stop his monkey business — doctors, veterinarians, herbalists, chiropractors, animal trainers, psychiatrists and even a psychic. But nothing seems to work. Has Matthew gone completely bananas?

Curriculum Connections

Language Arts

Genre, Literature, Understanding

humor

Reading levels

Fountas & Pinnell

Grade Level

2/3

Reading Recovery

Accelerated Reader

LG 3.4

Paperback

978-1-55453-119-6

Reviews

“Elliott’s straightforward text with its repetitive elements makes this an upbeat and child-pleasing choice, especially for read-alouds. Young audiences will be immensely satisfied with the final double-page illustration and its wordless conclusion.”: — School Library Journal, January 2005
“Andrej Krystoforski, an artist in Richmond Hill, Ontario, captures well the book’s theme of the pleasures of simple goofiness with his bright, energetic pen-and-watercolour illustrations … Krystoforski makes certain that many of the minor background characters are silly and vibrant, too, exactly as they would appear to a boy with a frantic imagination and a desire to pursue his enthusiasms to their ends.”: — Quill & Quire, March 2005

Awards

2006: Blue Spruce Award, Ontario Library Association, winner
2006: Great Book of the Year, Canadian Toy Testing Council , winner