Review: ""These fruits and vegetables are really very tasty. You were right. I should have tasted them before!"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
Shelley Admont along with illustrators Sonar Goyal and Sumit Sakhuja have produced a charming book for young children that teaches them the importance of eating right—in this case specifically fruits and vegetables which are important in everyone’s diet! The book tells the story of how Jimmy, one young bunny rabbit (in a family of bunny rabbits) wants to eat sweets and only sweets—he doesn’t want to eat the fruits and vegetables that his mother has prepared for a family meal. Although Jimmy’s older brothers try hard to dissuade him from eating sweets, Jimmy goes on a mission to reach a very high shelf where some candy is stored in the bunny rabbit family kitchen. When Jimmy begins to have some difficulty reaching the high shelf the story really takes off and becomes very interesting! The moral of the story is that, of course, eating right—fruits and vegetables in this case—will make you grow big and strong.There’s more detail to the story than just this; and I won’t write much more so I don’t spoil it all for you—or any children with whom you want to share this lovely book! Suffice it to say that not only does this book teach children the importance of eating right, it’s also a great way for grown-ups to bond with young children as they read the story to them. In addition, this book will enhance the vocabulary of quite a few youngsters so that makes this book even more valuable!I highly recommend this book for young children—ages 3 to 7 seems just about right as Amazon notes above. What an engaging bedtime story—or a tale to be enjoyed again and again at just about any time of the day when grown-ups have the time to share this book with young children!