Once Upon a Banana Book

Such a little banana causing such a big pile of trouble! How could it be? First the grocer, then the painter, next the bicycle messenger, and then — oh, no — not the baby in the carriage! An entire town turned upside down, all by a banana peel!

Caldecott Medal-winning artist David Small and award-winning author Jennifer Armstrong have created a roller-coaster ride of a picture book told in rhyming street signs that will tickle and delight readers from beginning to end and over and over again.

The New York Times - Jessica Bruder

This rambunctious tale, by Jennifer Armstrong, with illustrations by David Small, is almost wordless but packed with physical comedy. When a monkey escapes from his owner, swipes a banana, then tosses the peel on the sidewalk, it sets off a chain of clumsy chaos that topples townsfolk like dominoes…The characters' facial expressions؏from frustration to befuddlement, anxiety to glee—have a depth and clarity that will be familiar to fans of Small's earlier work, particularly the Caldecott Medal-winning So You Want to Be President? His watercolor panels are full of small, lovely moments…And despite the bedlam in every panel, Small manages to keep the plot clear.