EVERYTHING IS GRAPE!

Two friends have a silly conversation.

A pale-skinned child holding a bunch of grapes meets up with an Asian-presenting friend in a park. “Is this a grape?” asks the first child. “It is shaped like a grape.” The second child agrees: “Of course. Every grape is shaped like a grape.” The first child replies, “I guess you could say it is in grape shape”—the first of many goofy puns. As the friends encounter a series of objects, the first child insists that each is a grape, or at least grape-shaped. Is that box grape-shaped? No, but what about the balloon inside? “It has to be a grape,” says the first child, “because if it were a balloon, you see, it would be raisin up in the sky.” The book takes an absurd turn as the pals visit a zoo and climb onto a giraffe (or is it a “tall-shaped grape”?) and then hitch a ride on a purple kite (a “kite-shaped grape”?). “This is a vine mess I have gotten us into,” says the first child before the two of them descend. Back at home, the second child asks why the first insisted that everything was a grape. “Because you are my friend…and I wanted you to have a grape day.” Tran’s artwork relies on dialogue bubbles in borderless panels of varying sizes; textured, soft colors outlined in white create a cozy, charming feel.

A quirky tale full of totally grape puns.