Review by Booklist Review
Chapman's beloved Vegetables in Underwear (2017) characters return, and this time they're excited to celebrate the winter holidays and don their seasonal briefs, of course. But Broccoli, in long pants and striped shirt, seems baffled about the many activities. There's underwear that's the same, showing Celery and Turnip in matching snazzy-patterned skivvies, and, after Turnip puts on a holly garland, underwear that's . . . uh . . . unique. There are alone undies (on a selfie-taking pea) alongside those for being together check out the peas in red-and-green underpants that spell out Happy Holidays! Other happenings include baking, gift-wrapping, and even underwear for Santa, though Santa's revealed to be three diaper-clad veggies inside his costume ( Babies don't wear underwear. Sorry, babies! ). However, Broccoli remains still-dressed and Scrooge-like will other veggies ultimately convince Broccoli to join in? The spare, bold text uses colors to highlight concept words, and the droll, blocky illustrations further the humor. Endpapers identify the vegetables not-so-happily clothed at first, then delightedly modeling holiday undergarb. Overall, a light but nonetheless cute and quirky holiday-themed title.--Shelle Rosenfeld Copyright 2020 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
The friendly characters who first appeared in Vegetables in Underwear are ready for the holidays: "I've been waiting all year long... for holiday underwear season!" announces an adorable green pea. What follows is an accounting of underpants. After a Christmas meal, a smiling potato is seen dressed in "stretchy underwear" while a worried-looking carrot's underwear is "tight." A radish, standing at a window beside a lit menorah, wears "inside underwear," while a cob of corn tangled up in Christmas string lights wears a long, red pair of "outside underwear." A turnip takes it to another level, sporting a holly wreath as underpants ("underwear that's... uh... unique"). Chapman's formula is tried and true; the bright, immediate graphics provide a refreshingly silly holiday-time diversion, along with a lesson about opposites. Ages 3--7. (Oct.)
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Review by Horn Book Review
A giddy pea dons teal-colored undies and a Santa hat for "holiday underwear season!" The pea lays it all out with the help of some skivvies-wearing vegetable pals: "There's cozy underwear and scratchy underwear...And underwear for Santa!" The silly premise, gussied up for the season, will be familiar to fans of Chapman's Vegetables in Underwear (rev. 5/15), as will the colorful, rotund characters sprouting thin black-line arms and legs. "Santa" turns out to be three diaper-wearing baby veggies in disguise. Bursting with good cheer, the pea welcomes the panty-party crashers: "Holiday underwear is for everyone!" Kitty Flynn November/December 2019 p.27(c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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