So this was a pretty good book! It covers portion control as well as teaching about the different food groups. My one little gripe is that the font is really small and hard to read. Kids will be better off just learning to identify the foods on sight than trying to read their names. When it gets down to the proteins, they tend to be shown in their, er, processed forms, so some explaining might still need to be done there. I keep thinking of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution episode where the kids didn't know that ketchup is made from tomatoes... hopefully parents will think to explain that beef is from cows, etc. Vegan and vegetarian parents will have to rely on other books to talk about their diets, as the animal products are featured along with nuts, soy, etc.

Love the artwork! Here is photo collage pleasingly integrated into illustration. It even explains how to say "quinoa".

I can think of a ton of art projects related to food that can be used to help kids create and learn with this book. You can make your own cookbook (categorizing your favorite foods by the food groups), play a game where you identify vegetables and fruits, or play with your food and make faces with them (a la [a:Joost Elffers|12331|Joost Elffers|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png]). This would make a really cute card-matching deck for playing Concentration.

There's also a great opportunity to look for more information that isn't included in the book. Some interesting things to look up online might be how tofu is made, or how cranberries are harvested. (Yeah, I totally looked those up right now.)

Tofu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4wQtYVl7k I'm also tempted to make my own soy milk, now. And the girl in the video is adorbs.

Cranberries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaPmfJtdcE