![]() ![]() Freymann and Elffers previously used their ingenious food sculptures to introduce concepts in How Are You Peeling (1999) and One Lonely Sea Horse (2000). ![]() "Then," he says, "you can take them to a museum." From Booklist: Joost believes that if you can open children's eyes and thinking with things they can understand and duplicate - like food creations - a new range of creativity opens up. The result was Play With Your Food, his first collaboration with Saxton Freymann, and a bestseller for the whole family. For more information about Saxton Freymann, visit: /tradebooks Born in The Netherlands to artist parents, Joost turned his creative energy to food in 1976, when he became fascinated with the garnishes used by Japanese sushi chefs. "What's great about food," he says, "is that it keeps all of the photos fun." Freymann lives in New York City with his wife and three children, all of whom are very healthy, he says, because they eat the cast of characters he works on. ![]() Fruits and veggies - meticulously carved, then photographed - are his special gift to the bountiful world of children's literature. In the fertile mind of artist/sculptor Saxton Freymann, a cauliflower is a poodle, an artichoke is a wolf, a banana is an octopus, and a pumpkin is just about anything. ![]()
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