A friendly, round-headed cast with pin-dot blue eyes and broad smilles introduce the tasty possibilities of fresh fruit withour ever dropping the vaguest hint of (shh! The fruit and fruit colours all seem to mingle together with the characters through the illustrations. She has won many awards for her books, and is regularly invited to festivals including Cheltenham and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Vivian French is the author of over two hundred books, including the wildly popular series Tales from the Five Kingdoms. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. It made a good intro to our planned topic of making a fruit salad and opened up some good comments from our preschool group. Throughout the activity, children were given the opportunity to use their senses that include taste, smell, sight and touch as well as allowing them to extend their language, explore, discover and an attempt at guessing.Personally I think it’s a great book to encourage children to try fruits, the illustrations are a little outdated and dark it would be great if it was updated so it’s more clear to see but that’s just my opinion. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB.

nutrition, and the luscious, sunshiny palette of Bartlett's acrylic paintings will set the taste buds tingling. I did enjoy reading this story but I think for the age I believe it is suitable for, it is far too long so therefore I rate it 3*. He had thought he enjoyed eating them when he had realized he had helped his grandpa prepare the fruit rather than eating them. I suspect most kids will see that, but some kids may think the book makes fruit look more palatable.

From observations of this story being read to school Nursery children during the topic of ‘Colours’, they were becoming rather bored and after a while, they were not fully focused as they could be. This set of books are fantastic - especially the bright and cheerful illustrations and the overall visual effect of the book. The children enjoyed the book, but I felt that they did not take much for it, and the same feeling was with me as well.

It is a fun, colourful and adventurous book about a little boy who eats a variety of fruits at his grandparent’s house. Oliver has recently spent time with his grandparents and it appears that any food or drink he is given at home by his mum is not good enough. Encouraging children to prepare their own simple treats, the book breaks the big topic of healthy eating into appetising, bite-sized chunks. These could be laminated and used when actually making the salad, or for classroom displays and discussion afterwards. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. My first impression of this book was that it would make a great addition to any class teacher introducing various fruit varieties to her young class. All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Of course at age 8 he's actually too old for this, but since he's just learning English at school, it's just the perfect difficulty level for him to actually understand what's happening without having to ask me about every other word.