Books to help children understand the importance of healthy eating.
Browse all our recommended parenting books to help you discuss the big issues with your little ones.
101 Ways to Eat Your Veg
Imogen Foster
Hard veg, soft veg, green veg, sour veg, crunchy and chewy veg. Vegetables come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s important to eat them so you can grow happy and strong.
You can fry veg, roast it, pickle it and steam it. You can eat it stacked in a sandwich or topping a pizza. You can eat it with a spoon, fork, your hands or even NO hands.
There are 101 ways to eat your veg packed into the pages of this funny and totally ridiculous but really helpful book. With tips on why eating veg is so important and fun facts about animals’ real foodie habits throughout, this book will help little readers learn to love veg.
Tyrannosaurus Veg and Titan Pterodactyl
Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Titan Pterodactyl is the terror of the skies, he flaps about and scares us all with loud and squawky cries! Won’t you come and help us Reg? We need you! What d’you say?
Titan’s just unstoppable – and heading right this way! When Titan Pterodactyl begins to terrorise the other dinos, mud-slinging and dive-bombing, Reg and Lou use all their best moves to foil him.
Luckily they have been eating their veg and are strong, fit and healthy – and happily Titan was only trying to be cool – he just wanted to join their healthy fun!
My Rice is Best!
Selina Brown
Join Shane and friends as they attempt to settle the age-old question of which tastie-tastic rice dish is the best! Shane’s favourite meal is a big, delicious, mouth-watering bowl of rice and peas. He believes it is the best rice in the whole wide world and can’t wait to bring some in for his lunch at school.
But how will he react when he discovers that that his friend, Yinka, has also brought her favourite meal of Jollof rice in for lunch?
‘My Rice is Best’ is a mesme-ricing, laugh-out-loud celebration of food and friendship!
The Little Cook’s Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Cooking
Lizzie Mabbott
From global recipes to tips on sourcing fresh ingredients and how different foods can be prepared and enjoyed, this beautifully illustrated cookbook is a visual feast and a delight to the senses.
Learn how to make dumplings, apple turnovers, spiced fish fingers and other delicious dishes!
Ruffles and the New Green Thing
Dawid Melling
There’s a new green thing in Ruffles’ bowl and he does not like it. But look! Ralph has come to play. Ruffles really loves Ralph. Ralph always finds the best sticks, jumps the highest fences and digs the deepest holes.
So, when Ralph spots the new green thing and happily takes a big bite, Ruffles soon decides that broccoli can’t be so bad, after all.
Rasta Granny’s Rainbow
Jessica Wilson
Dylan is feeling low, and Granny knows just how to lift his spirits – she’ll show him how to make a rainbow! From red ackee to orange plantain, and a rainbow of colourful fruit, this beautiful, uplifting story shows the richness and deliciousness of Jamaican foods.
Young children will love guessing the next colour on this magical journey of food and family love. ‘Rasta Granny’s Rainbow’ features simple, lyrical recipe-poems for such classic dishes as fried plantain, fruit cake and duckanoo.
Are You a Hungry Monster?
Guilherme Karsten
Are you feeling hungry? Do you like eating raggedy old socks and lots of earwax? No? So you’re not a hungry monster!
Wait – you ARE hungry? But you like pasta, cookies AND fruit? GROSS! Can you resist the ‘delicious’ feast monster has made for you?
Love Veggies
Jamie Oliver
Learn to love veggies with Jamie Oliver! Packed with vegetables to touch and feel, and fun flaps to lift, this interactive board book makes exploring food an adventure from the very first bite.
Every page of this sturdy board book is packed with sensory fun. Discover 20 new vegetables with textured skins for little fingers to touch and feel, then lift the flaps to see what’s inside! Unearth a carrot, pop open a pea pod and reveal the layers of an onion – each new veggie brings a delicious surprise to explore.
With simple first words to see and say, and interactive flaps, little cooks will learn about healthy food fun from the very first taste.
Snack, Please!
Georgie Birkett
Gertie LOVES snacks: sofa snacks, bath snacks, bedtime snacks – it’s a snack life! She abandons almost every mealtime in favour of snacking.
Her daddy can’t help but feel frustrated – how can he convince her to try new food? Or to even talk about something other than snacks?
A day in Granny’s allotment might just provide all the inspiration that’s needed.
Hangry
Kathryn Wanless
When Evangeline’s alarm clock shrieks, the day is NOT off to a good start because – SHE’S HANGRY! But after breakfast, Evangeline is back to feeling right and skips happily down the street. Yet, at school, as lunchtime looms near. Yes, you guessed it – SHE’S HANGRY!
The afternoons are always lots of fun. Except, as she leaves the playground and spots her waiting Mum, UH OH – SHE’S HANGRY, AGAIN! When at last they make it home, things go from bad to worse. It turns out that it’s not only Evangeline who is HANGRY!
Can Evangeline and Mum work together to find the perfect snack before it’s too late? WARNING: There may be a HANGRY monster lurking inside of you too.
Koniec z groszkiem
Madeleine Cook i Erika Meza
Oliver only wants to eat chips and pizza for dinner. So when Dad keeps dishing up vegetables, Oliver’s cheeks turn red and he shouts: ‘NO MORE PEAS!’
Will Oliver ever give vegetables a chance? A story about growing vegetables, eating healthily and being brave enough to try new things.
Zabawna, szybka i łatwa książka kucharska dla dzieci autorstwa Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel
This practical cookbook is filled with fun, tasty recipes that will help parents inspire young children with a love of cooking, food and healthy eating.
Recipes include child-friendly versions of food from around the world, such as stir-fries, paella and kebabs. The recipes cater to all dietary requirements, featuring swaps for gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan versions.
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