Peeny Butter Fudge

Peeny Butter Fudge, written by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison is a wonderful picturebook filled with rhymes that young readers would enjoy. This book is about children spending the day with their grandmother, who ignores their mother’s carefully planned schedule in favor of activities that are much more fun!

The illustrator, Joe Cepeda, used beautifully created pictures made in oil paints that would easily draw the attention of young readers!

This book comes with an activity that students could do with a parent or in the classroom. The activity is a recipe called Peeny Butter Fudge! This will not only motivate young readers but it would also engage them in hands on activity that could easily involve math and science.

Questions I would include with this book would be:

1.       What are some of the rhyming words used in the book?

2.       What kind of activities do you do with your grandmother?

3.       What kind of fun would you have included with your grandmother that was not in the book?

This book is so full of creativity! I would definitely read this to young students and family members. I enjoyed this book so much that I had to buy it for a friend’s daughter! The colors and rhymes are fun and the recipe included was perfect for young readers!