Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

In Spoon the reader is introduced to Spoon as well as Spoon's family (which consists of quite the assortment of silverware!). Spoon is jealous of Knife and Fork and Chopsticks and relates to his mother his jealousies and why they are so much luckier than him. Spoon's mother reiterates why it is so great to be a spoon and how spoons can do all sorts of things that knives and forks and chopsticks CAN'T do. And in the meantime, each of the aforementioned3 pieces of eatery are expressing their envies about Spoon to their parents. The book ends with a spoon family cuddle. AWWWWWWWW.

What this book does is take the general theme of envy over others and applies it to a cute but generic format which could be applied easily towards any possible reader.

I like it.

Illustrated by Scott Magoon.
Hyperion Books, 2009.