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Picky Eaters
Did you know that koalas eat only eucalyptus? That arctic foxes dine on lemmings? Or that leatherback turtles enjoy a dish of jellyfish? Like children, animals can be very, very fussy about their food! This rhyming board book, with engaging lift-the-flaps, introduces toddlers to ten choosy creatures and their minimal diets. After meeting each animal, kids lift the flap to see what it eats. Most important, in addition to having fun, little ones learn that it’s good to eat adventurously.
Put a new food on your plate,
You may find it’s something great!
Put a new food on your plate,
You may find it’s something great!
16 pages, Board Book
Published January 3, 2017
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March 4, 2019
Cute with a fun message, but the most ripable flaps we’ve seen yet.
August 27, 2021
The messaging was a bit frenetic.
The whole book is little rhyming couplets about animals and what they eat: koalas only eat eucalyptus, anteaters eat ants, pandas eat bamboo. Most adults who have been educated know this. The couplets are cute and effective, I even learned that turkeys eat poison ivy. Did not know that. I doubt that's what they only eat, because we have millions of turkeys here in Colorado and not a whole lot of poison ivy. It exists, but despite tramping around in rural Colorado on paths and off of paths, I've only encountered it once, and there are turkeys everywhere, running across the alleyway behind my house, where there is definitely no poison ivy, so they must eat other things as well. Also, how would we manage to farm turkeys, which we obviously do, if they only ate poison ivy? Do we have massive poison ivy farms to support the turkey industry? I've never heard of such a thing, and doubt very seriously that it exists. Yeah, go to Amazon and click on the ingredient list of turkey feed. It looks like ingredients from a processed food box, complete with impossible to pronounce chemicals.
So yeah, the messaging is a bit frenetic. Some animals really only do eat the thing that the book says, some eat all kinds of stuff. That was one issue, another was that the whole book is about picky eaters and how they have to be that way and the last page is: So you should try something new!
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I think these messages are somewhat at odds with each other.
On the other hand, the flaps were fun, the couplets were cute, the art was cute, and I enjoyed reading this book. It would be a lot of fun to read it out loud with your kids and because of the rhymes it will be easy for them to remember and get all excited about shouting out the answer before the flap is turned. Great for helping them with mental recall too.
Story: Narrative Poems
Art: Fun
Price: $7.95
The whole book is little rhyming couplets about animals and what they eat: koalas only eat eucalyptus, anteaters eat ants, pandas eat bamboo. Most adults who have been educated know this. The couplets are cute and effective, I even learned that turkeys eat poison ivy. Did not know that. I doubt that's what they only eat, because we have millions of turkeys here in Colorado and not a whole lot of poison ivy. It exists, but despite tramping around in rural Colorado on paths and off of paths, I've only encountered it once, and there are turkeys everywhere, running across the alleyway behind my house, where there is definitely no poison ivy, so they must eat other things as well. Also, how would we manage to farm turkeys, which we obviously do, if they only ate poison ivy? Do we have massive poison ivy farms to support the turkey industry? I've never heard of such a thing, and doubt very seriously that it exists. Yeah, go to Amazon and click on the ingredient list of turkey feed. It looks like ingredients from a processed food box, complete with impossible to pronounce chemicals.
So yeah, the messaging is a bit frenetic. Some animals really only do eat the thing that the book says, some eat all kinds of stuff. That was one issue, another was that the whole book is about picky eaters and how they have to be that way and the last page is: So you should try something new!
....
I think these messages are somewhat at odds with each other.
On the other hand, the flaps were fun, the couplets were cute, the art was cute, and I enjoyed reading this book. It would be a lot of fun to read it out loud with your kids and because of the rhymes it will be easy for them to remember and get all excited about shouting out the answer before the flap is turned. Great for helping them with mental recall too.
Story: Narrative Poems
Art: Fun
Price: $7.95
September 14, 2017
This book introduces the diets of various wildlife and insects. It can be boring and a difficult topic, but the book is designed to introduce children to cute paintings and animals, and to give them a little activity which they can unfold out by hiding what they eat and how they live. This book is easy to learn on a one-to-one basis, but it is a hard to create and provide a similar activity from the viewpoint of a school teacher who has to deal with several students at once.
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