Ever seen an angry orange? A timid radish? A jealous tomato? You will here, in a hilarious book about moods and emotions which uses photographs of real fruits and vegetables to show the range of emotional expressions formerly associated with humans only. Freymann and Elfers create this moody mixed salad by selecting fruits and vegetables predispositioned by shape and size, and then by using an exacto-knife, black-eyed peas and beet juice to wrench the emotions out of them. Funny as this all appears, you are still bound to feel sorry for a very sad little onion that appears near the end of the book. But then, onions have always had the capacity to make us cry. (Ages 4 and up)

"Who'd have dreamed that produce could be so expressive, so charming, so lively and funny'...Freymann and...Elffers have created sweet and feisty little beings with feelings, passions, fears and an emotional range that is, well, organic." - The New York Times Book Review. "Use this book to discuss different moods, to introduce the names of many fruits and vegetables, to identify colors, and to inspire young artists to create sculptures of their own." - School Library Journal, starred review