A FRUIT CHANT - A Beach Lane Books First Edition - Go bananas at the market!

Sep 28, 2026

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A colorful children’s poetry celebration of fresh fruit with playful rhymes and vivid, sensory imagery. The text invites readers to enjoy a “fruit festival” through energetic lines about market aisles, shopping baskets, and eye-popping produce. It highlights many kinds of fruit and fun wordplay, including repeated calls and upbeat sounds, ending with distinctive, kid-friendly descriptions such as tangelo and cactus-like varieties.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages40

Reading Time1 h 2 min

AccessFree to download

Rah, rah, raspberries!

Go, go, grapes!

Savor the flavors, find fruity shapes!

Hello, tangelo! Tamarillo shines.

Cactus and kiwano—prickly spines!

# A FRUIT CHANT by april pulley sayreAuthor of Rah,Rah,Radishes! Go bananas at the market! Lemons and limes!Papayas and pineapples!The aisles are packedwith eye-popping piles ofdelicious and nutritious fruits.Grab that shopping basket—this is one rollicking,rhyming fruit festival ■ Beach Lane BooksNew York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi For Carolyn,Reid,and all the Pulley bunch Thank you to the South Bend Farmer's Market.where much of this fruit was photographed.Special thanks to theHovenkamps.Marie.Kay.Klug's.Vaughn and Carol of Wolf Farms Perennials &More.Johnson's Produce.Disterheft.and Wolf Farms&Greenhouses.Local grocers Gini and Gene Bamber of Bamber's Superette.Alfredo Palacios of ElParaiso.Oanh and Bao Nguyen of Saigon Market.and the crew at Shelton's Farm Market sourced exotic fruit andallowed me to photograph displays.Blueberry Ranch.thanks!During my travels.other food folk welcomed me andhelped too:Whole Foods in Chicago:Jungle Jim's International Market in Hamilton,Ohio;Daley Plaza Farmer's Marketin Chicago:Crescent City Farmer's Market in New Orleans;the Vietnamese Farmer's Market in East New Orleans:Kitchener Market and St.Jacobs Farmer's Market in Ontario;Jean-Talon Market in Montreal;and the Ecology CenterFarmer's Market in North Berkeley.Thank you.Mary and Gordon.Mango smoothies to Andrea.Isabel.Candace,andJeff for their support,and to Lauren for the juicy.joyful design. A BEACH LANE BOOKS·An imprint of Simon &Schuster Children's Publishing Division·1230 Avenue of the Americas,New York.New York 10020 ·Copyright 2012 by April Pulley Sayre·All rights reserved.including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.·BEACH LANE Books isa trademark of Simon &Schuster,Inc.·For information about special discounts for bulk purchases,please contact Simon &Schuster Special Sales at1-866-506-1949or business@simonandschuster.com.·The Simon &Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event.For more informationor to book an event.contact the Simon &Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.·Book design byLauren Rille·The text for this book is set in Calvert.·Manufactured in China·0312 SCP·First Edition·Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData·Sayre.April Pulley.·Go.go,grapes!/April Pulley Sayre.—1st ed.·p.cm.·ISBN 978-1-4424-3390-8(hardcover)·ISBN 978-1-4424-3391-5(eBook) ·1.Grapes—Juvenile literature.2.Children's poetry.1.Title.·SB388.S292012·641.3'4—dc23·2011011602·10987654321 ■5. Rah,rah,raspberries!Go,go,grapes! ID,n0 Savor the flavors.Find fruity shapes! Hello,tangelo!Tamarillo shines. Cactus and kiwano—prickly spines!

FAQs

What kind of content does this book feature?

It features children’s poetry centered on a joyful celebration of fruits, written in playful rhymes and energetic lines.

How does the poem encourage the reader to interact with the theme?

It invites the reader to “grab that shopping basket” and enjoy the market aisles with bright, rhythmic descriptions of produce.

Which fruit names are mentioned in the provided text?

The excerpt includes grapes, lemons, limes, papayas, pineapples, bananas, tangelo, tamarillo, and kiwano, among others.

Sep 28, 2026

Uploaded by Bulrr