Review: `Jimmy, look! You've grown a bit!'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
Shelley Admont is a successful mom and a successful creator of children's books that are for both entertainment and lessons for behavior for children. In this book she has wisely engaged illustrators Sonal Goyal and Sumit Sakhuja who provide wonderful images for Admont's story.Jimmy and his brothers are discussing food: Jimmy likes sweets and wants to eat candy and sweets for his meals. Jimmy looks in the kitchen and there on table is a collection of fruits and vegetables! Ugh! Preferring candy and sweets Jimmy spies a bag of candy on the top shelf of the cabinet and after many attempts to reach it he falls...and becomes very small. When his brothers see him he confesses what he did. His brothers say he should eat fruits and vegetables to grow, and despite Jimmy's hesitance, after his mother reinforces the concept of how to grow by eating fruits and vegetables, Jimmy gives in and Presto! He begins to grow. Form then on the main diet for Jimmy is fruits and vegetables because he wants to grow big and strong.In this well-written and colorfully illustrated book Shelley Admont once again proves she knows how to tell a good story while at the same time teaching important lessons for children. Grady Harp, January14