Sunday, April 7, 2019

Review - Kitchen Disco

Kitchen Disco
by Clare Foges
illustrated by Al Murphy
Date: 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Reading level: C
Book type: picture book
Pages: 32
Format: e-book
Source: library

At night when you are sleeping
There's a party in your house,
It's a pumping, jumping, funky bash
When all the lights go out...

When the sun goes down, the Kitchen Disco starts up - and all the fruit in the fruit bowl come out to play. There are lemons who break-dance, tangerines who twirl and some very over-excited apples. But one night a nasty mango turns up to spoil the fun...

Kitchen Disco is a humorous, rhyming picture book for young children.

(synopsis from Goodreads)

Who knew a book about dancing fruit could be so amusing?

That's all this is, really. It's a rhyming picture book about fruit having a party in the kitchen after everyone goes to bed. Each fruit has their own moves, and they all sing a catchy song. Even being found out by the homeowners doesn't stop the party!

The illustrations are colourful and fun, with plenty of different fruits represented (yay for diversity!). I feel it got a little repetitive toward the end (I was reading the e-book version and I actually checked to see how much further I had to go, because it seemed like it was going on forever), but kids will probably enjoy the catchy fruit song and the antics of all the delicious snacks.

Quotable moment:


Premise: 3/5
Meter: 4/5
Writing: 3/5
Illustrations: 3/5
Originality: 4/5

Enjoyment: 4/5

Overall: 3.57 out of 5

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