Eat your superpowers! How colorful foods keep you healthy and strong

Toni Buzzeo

Book - 2023

"From grapes to beets and oatmeal to cashews, this reference book highlights and explains the benefits of 25 fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains, each grouped into color categories and presented with the mind and body benefits they offer. Carefully crafted one-sentence explanations from author Toni Buzzeo provide the perfect amount of information for the preschool audience, and illustrator Serge Bloch's charming and humorous art make this an entertaining and uniquely appetizing reference book of food facts." -- Amazon.com.

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Subjects
Genres
Juvenile works
Instructional and educational works
Picture books
Published
New York : Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Toni Buzzeo (author)
Other Authors
Serge Bloch (illustrator)
Physical Description
77 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Audience
Ages 2-5
ISBN
9780593522950
9780593522967
9780593657867
  • Red & pink foods
  • Orange & yellow foods
  • Green foods
  • Blue & purple foods
  • Brown & white foods
  • Food options
  • Body chart.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Colorful foods are good for us! Using a wide variety of foods engagingly organized by color, this title introduces healthy eating, showing 25 fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains that can keep us "strong, healthy, smart, and full of energy." The clean design will make this easy to share even with preschool readers and listeners. Each spread introduces a single food set against a plain white background. The name, in bold capital letters in the appropriate color, introduces a short sentence explaining what the food does for our bodies. "KIWIS help your brain think quickly and clearly." The name of the important nutrient is listed below in much smaller letters, in this case vitamin C. Each food is illustrated with a photograph enhanced with Bloch's personifying additions. Dancing Brussels sprouts, bespectacled grapes, and an eggplant wearing a surgical mask are just a few of the amusing illustrations. The urinating blueberry will especially delight the intended audience. For picky or allergic eaters, the author even suggests food alternatives that can serve the same healthy purposes; both figs and broccoli, for example, help keep your bones strong. A chart labels a child's body with the foods that nourish each part or process. Buzzeo's long experience in writing for young readers shows. This is simple, entertaining, and effective. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Nutrition for the nursery and early elementary school set. (Informational picture book. 3-7) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.