Review: Colors, Words, Food!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
Israeli clinical dietician Liora Houbara is also a Master NLP (Neuro-Linguist Programmer) and specialist in guided imagery since 1987 and is considered one of the leading experts in Israel in the field of nutrition and dieting with NLP. And now she opens another door with providing beautifully illustrated (by Amber Houbara) teaching books for small children that aid in learning colors and words of known entities - in this case food! Or as the author states, `In this book, with its large, colorful pictures, your baby will learn to associate the colors and pictures of the healthy foods he sees and the name of the food he hears. He gets to know the color, the vegetable or fruit, to identify them, and say their name. By teaching your baby about nutrition early on, you will help to set up healthy eating habits for life.'This very cleverly designed introduces a color by name and by pigment and follows that idea with a vegetable of the same color - again with the name of the vegetable spelled out for easy recognition.  For example, Red is a spot of red paint beside the word `Red', turn the page, and there is a brilliantly colorful Red Pepper. Other colors (orange, green, white, purple, yellow are introduced in the same manner) and then as reinforcement later in the book the word Red is repeated followed by a new vegetable - Red Tomatoes and yet again, in a few pages the Red is repeated followed by Red Chile Peppers. So, not only is the word for each color spelled out repeatedly for gradual recognition, but also with each new use of the word of a color a new vegetable is used/learned. Double learning techniques, double fun for parents and children. This is an excellent technique and will likely become a favorite book as children progress in learning colors, words and healthy vegetables.  Grady Harp, October 13