Green Gooey Goop

Kids will love this amusing book by Anna C. Morrison. It's about a kid whose mother makes a "healthy" drink by combining green vegetables and plants into a slimy mixture.

The kid spills it on the floor and the dog licks it up. What do you think happens to the dog?

Any child who is encouraged to eat healthy food will appreciate the ingredients in the goop, which keep getting more disgusting as the story progresses.

And parents will want to assure their kids that the real fruits and vegetables they offer won't be anything like the combination in the story. Sharing this funny book would be a good way to start a discussion the importance of eating real foods that are healthy.

Alexander Morris did a great job of showing the story in his illustrations.

Bearly Learning About Water

Mary Esparza-Vela has written a cute book about the relationship between siblings. Of course they happen to be bears, but human children will be able to identify with them.

Molly keeps trying to get her little brother Fritz to try new things, but the younger cub is afraid of nearly everything. However she gradually gets him to try a few things until Fritz manages to overcome his fear of water on his own.

Of course I liked the illustrations by Alexander Morris, who illustrated one of my books.