"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!
Kiddle, Elora: - Elora Kiddle, an artist and designer out of Calgary, Alberta has been pursuing a creative life since as long as she can remember. Following much art exploration growing up, she studied Graphic Design at Alberta University of the Arts. Her paintings and illustrations have been in various exhibitions and won her many awards and scholarships. She believes in bringing emotion and imagination to her work. Her inspiration comes from her crazy family of 6 and her love for hiking and traveling.
Orrego, Alyssa: - "Alyssa Orrego is a Canadian author and photographer in Victoria, British Columbia who loves encouraging a vivid imagination in both children and adults. Alyssa has always loved writing and grew up writing novels and short stories. She studied English literature and creative writing a Brigham Young University - Hawaii while starting a family with her husband, Tim. She now has three sons who she loves to invent stories for and who inspire her with their active imaginations and love of learning."
