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calistareads's review
3.0
This is a great story about the excitement of getting food from a garden, but as a children's book, the artwork was rather pooh. It's not bad artwork, but it's sparse. The page is mostly white with a whole lot of words on the page and then only a small stripe of art across one page. I have read a lot of picture books and this missed an opportunity to be full of color and life and to help the young reader see the magic of the garden. When there are too many words on the page for picture books, I found with my niblings that kids don't like that. They want pictures and a certain amount of words per page.
The story is about a girl who didn't like vegetables, so like every kid in the US. She is about to throw away all the vegetables she doesn't want to eat and her dad catches her and has her go to a garden to see where the food comes from. Now, our niblings and they have a garden and they enjoy planting plants. They don't like picking them and they don't like eating them so much either. This book has the girl change magically and loves eating veggies.
I gave the book 3 stars because 'I' like the story, but I can't see many kids read this and enjoy it. This might be the first time on Goodreads, I'm the only review. I wish I could be more positive, but this is more for adults who want their kids to change their mind about veggies, than for kids. It's missing that kid factor. The main character is a kid and the whole throwing away food was good, but it's still no a great kids book.
The story is about a girl who didn't like vegetables, so like every kid in the US. She is about to throw away all the vegetables she doesn't want to eat and her dad catches her and has her go to a garden to see where the food comes from. Now, our niblings and they have a garden and they enjoy planting plants. They don't like picking them and they don't like eating them so much either. This book has the girl change magically and loves eating veggies.
I gave the book 3 stars because 'I' like the story, but I can't see many kids read this and enjoy it. This might be the first time on Goodreads, I'm the only review. I wish I could be more positive, but this is more for adults who want their kids to change their mind about veggies, than for kids. It's missing that kid factor. The main character is a kid and the whole throwing away food was good, but it's still no a great kids book.
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