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by Alyssa Orrego (Author), Elora Kiddle (Illustrator)
"If I am a caterpillar, I CAN eat my food!"
Denny has a problem... He does NOT want to eat his healthy dinner! Daddy has an idea.
What if... he could turn into a caterpillar to eat his lettuce? Or a dinosaur to eat his broccoli trees? Join Denny as he uses magic and imagination to overcome his picky eating and make mealtime his very own adventure.
Encourage your toddler, child or student to use their imagination to overcome hard things with this exciting picture book!
Something that can be very hard for kids is eating healthy or trying new things. In this beautifully illustrated children's book, a little boy's daddy brings him on the adventure of a lifetime to make something as commonplace as dinner time something exciting and fun. Creativity is sparked on every page with its creative wording, beautiful watercolor pictures, and fun word fonts.
This book is also a great bedtime story, or casual read and is filled with exciting pictures, engaging words and fonts, fun rhymes, and good messages.
Topics include:
- The power of imagination
- Healthy food
- Positive parent relationships
- Father son bonding
- Healthy eating
- Using imagination to try new things
- Using imagination to overcome hard things
- Using imagination to make mealtime fun
- How to overcome picky eating
- Picky Eater helps
- The love of a parent
- Healthy father figure role
- The importance of dad
- Eating dinner as a family
The book starts out with a disgruntled toddler pouting about having to eat dinner. He doesn't like the food his parents made for him and he'd rather play! But Denny's daddy doesn't get mad or force him to eat. Instead, he takes him on an adventure by helping Denny use his imagination to turn himself into a dinosaur, tunnel, dragon, and even a pirate shark with a wooden fin! All of the sudden, mealtime is fun! He eats all of his dinner, only to find an exciting surprise at the end!
A perfect book to add to every child's library and primary teachers' collections!
