Cherries and Cherry Pits

Written by Vera B. Williams

Narrated by Martha Plimpton

This is Bidemmi's book. Enter her world, look at the pictures she draws as she tells her stories. You will never forget her.

This is Bidemmi's book. Enter her world, look at the pictures she draws as she tells her stories. You will never forget her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: May 12, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061762383

Vera B. Williams

Vera B. Williams began her career in children’s books by illustrating Hooray for Me!, written by Remy Charlip with Lilian Moore. Her beloved A Chair for My Mother won multiple awards, including a Caldecott Honor, and “More, More, More,” Said the Baby also received a Caldecott Honor. Vera B. Williams was the recipient of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; she was awarded the 2009 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature; and she was the US nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2004. Vera B. Williams died on October 16, 2015, shortly before this book was completed.

Reviews for Cherries and Cherry Pits

[pussreboots · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams is another of picture books included in my daughter's text book. She likes to check out the original books to see the illustrations, as the text book only includes a few of them.The narrator of the book lives in an apartment with Bidemmi, a girl who loves to draw. The narrator brings her different colors to see what she will do with them. Bidemmi as she draws always tells a story to go with what she's creating.Cherries and Cherry Pits is Bidemmi's story about eating cherries on the subway and saving the best pits to plant. Her plant grows into a proper tree and soon she can share fresh cherries with all the people in the apartment building and surrounding neighborhood block.There's an element of magical realism to the story too. Although everything is told as Bidemmi draws it, when her story ends, there's a picture of what appears to be her story come to fruition. Whether her story is autobiography or whether the cherry tree has grown through the magic of story telling, though, is left to the reader's imagination.

[emilyann93 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book is about a young African american girl who loves to share her art, colors, stories, and even cherries with the whole world. The young girl comes up with make believe stories, and each story the cherry is somehow related to it. All of her stories start with the word This. She draws pictures to go away with her stories.

[conuly · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Let me say, before we start out, that this is a wordy book. It's definitely more suited for the older end of the 4-8 crowd.This is a story of a young artist. She draws three pictures of three people, and tells the stories of how they eat cherries on three occasions.Then she finally tells her own story, and her own plan, about how she intends to save the pits from her own cherries and plant them, until there is a "forest of cherry trees" she can share with the whole world.Simple, strong story. The young nieces sit for it, and I love it too.