As families with young children are only too aware, a trip to the grocery store with your offspring in tow can feel like a Herculean task. In this cheerful picture book, a toddler creates chaos during a supermarket outing. The simple rhyming text reads like a shopping list (“Beets. Meats. Ham. / Peanut butter. Jam.”), while the illustrations show a youngster tossing the beets to the floor and sampling the peanut butter and jam. From one aisle to the next, he gleefully wreaks havoc, all from his seat in the shopping cart. The beleaguered mother gamely completes her task and the pair escape from the store, leaving a monumental mess in their wake. Watercolor and ink illustrations feature an over-the-top scene of good-natured pandemonium which will amuse young children and with which their caretakers will—wincingly—identify. Sturdy pages make this a practical choice for the very age capable of acts of inadvertent destruction! (Ages 18 months–3 years)

Pay no attention to the havoc your child is wreaking in the produce section! Get ready for a funny food-shopping experience both grownups and toddlers will relate to.

Cart. Start. Ride inside. Berries. Cherries. Potatoes. Tomatoes.

As a mother wheels her little one through the supermarket, this simple, straightforward text comically belies the cumulative chaos the toddler is leaving in their wake. Lively illustrations of rolling vegetables, slipping customers, and toppling cans carry the punchline in this entertaining excursion that will have readers big and small laughing in recognition.