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Our granddaughter Caroline has grown to be an adventurous eater. To our delight, now at 12 years old, she enjoys the seafood she samples when she visits us in Gloucester, as well as the vegetables she helps to harvest from our garden. We share a fondness for chocolate, but the lunches she packs for herself now are full of fruits, vegetables, and yogurt. Caroline’s time outside of school is spent on the field hockey and lacrosse fields, on the basketball court, and on her bike, and she knows that being active and eating healthy foods keep her going. She tells me that good food is yummy (most of the time!) and that kids who eat well can be strong, powerful, and tall as the sky! Here are some new books for children about staying healthy.
What’s So Yummy? follows the same young family we met previously in Who has What? and Who’s in My Family? Here they ride bikes and scooters to the farmer’s market to buy food for a picnic, enjoy a snack of fruit and water, and finally plop down together on their picnic blanket after some running around in the park — all the time discussing the benefits of ...