Martha hates green beans. But when a gang of lean, mean and green b(e)andits swagger into town, everyone who has ever said “Eat your green beans” is in trouble — including her parents — and it’s up to Martha to save them.
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Don’t Play with Your Food! by Bob Shea
Poor Buddy. All he wants is to make a nice monster meal of the bunnies that he encounters, but somehow or other, his plan keeps getting thwarted by the bunnies, who may or may not know exactly what they are doing…
A Taste of the Moon by Michael Grejniec
For a long time, the animals have wondered what the moon tasted like, but none of them could touch it, no matter how hard they tried — that is, until a tenacious little tortoise decides to aim much higher and spontaneously kick-starts an ambitious plan that requires the animals to work together to literally reach their common goal.
There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby and Cassandra Allen
There are many variations of The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, but this particular one caught my eye because the bold and beautiful gouache and pencil illustrations have a strikingly surreal quality that really brings out the inherent incredulousness of the tale.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
The folk poem that inspired this book and countless similar iterations has become so ubiquitous that most people must have heard or read at least one version of it — with some attempting to water down the provocative “perhaps she’ll die” refrain with something more politically correct.
I Really Want to Eat a Child by Sylviane Donnio and Dorothee de Monfreid
Parents who’ve had to pull their hair out over their little picky eaters’ dietary woes will empathise with little Achilles’s parents when he declares one day that wholesome bananas are no longer his cup of tea. Instead what he really wants is to eat a child!
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
One of the reasons why many of Dr. Seuss’s best books resonate with both children and grown-ups, is the way he has compressed important life lessons into ostensibly lightly-worded and catchy rhymes that can be understood by anyone. And one of the best examples of his genius at work is, of course, Green Eggs and Ham
Mmm… Let’s Eat! by Libby Koponen and Betsy Thompson
‘Eating a rainbow’ is a concept that helps kids to identify fresh produce and encourages healthy eating habits.
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Let’s Eat!
Worms for Lunch? by Leonid Gore
Styled as a mini investigation of sorts, Worms for Lunch?
The Mouse Who Ate the Moon by Petr Horacek
There’s just something about the moon that evokes feelings of wistful nostalgia, mystery… and hunger — at least that’s the impression we get from some of the children’s books we’ve reviewed, like Mooncake, Sidney, Stella and the Moon and now, The Mouse Who Ate the Moon
