Age: Preschool+Family: Younger brother, older sisterFood: Trying to make a kid eat what he doesn't want to eatI felt like this was a lot stronger than "A Few Blocks" mainly because the imagination and the real world blended more cohesively, with each one distinct and recognizeable. You can see the imagination laying on top of reality. For example, an outline of a ferocious dinosaur is set atop a cat walking down the hallway; the outlines of spaceships and aliens are set atop kitchen countertops, curtains, and a table. As the imagination slips away, we can see the unreal world slowly disappear, e.g. as Ferdie's dinosaur tail slowly fades away.A perfect celebration of imagination, creativity, and eating "unlikeable" food. What's a big sister to do when her little brother won't eat his lunch? In this case, she makes up wildly imaginative stories about how broccoli was food for dinosaurs and carrots were "Orange Power Sticks" (unpaged) consumed by Zyblots for super vision. Big sister Viola has enough imagination to get Ferdie to eat two food items, but she runs out of steam during the third story. I loved the beginning and the stories she tells, but the story took a strange turn when he refuses to eat his ravioli and then creates his own dessert. Offsetting the simple sketches of the brother and sister, the ink and watercolor illustrations contain pastel colors to represent the stories Viola is telling.
What do You think about A Few Bites (2012)?
A page out of my life. This sibling pair is mine, only differently named.
—Shiv
New imaginative ways to get your young children to eat healthy foods.
—nandini
