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Baby Food

Playing with food!

You can buy

Baby Food

now, from

     by Saxton Freymann produced by Joost Elffers
  Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
 
  $12.95 US/$19.99 CAN
  0439110173
  2003
 
  25 pages/hardcover for ages 18 months to 4 years
   


Most babies and toddlers love playing with their food. Of course, they're not supposed to! But, you know better!

Get this book to give food a new dimension and open your child's creativity channels!! No TV or VCR required!! Trust me.

Read Baby Food, the picture book, to your little munchkins and they'll look at food a whole 'nother way! It could be a good way to introduce them to new food! Well, some of them, at least! Don't tell your kids that the sweet potato you're coaxing them to eat is really a baby alligator. That won't work.

Don't be surprised if your child's imagination goes crazy when he or she sees this picture book's fruit and veggie carvings. Carvings (done by the pros) looks like real puppies, kitties, bunnies, lambies, alligators, hippos, chickies, mousies, duckies, penguin chickies, piggies, and more! You get the picture! Watching your toddler point to daddy and telling him he looks like a big piggie is not necessarily a good thing. But hilariously funny, yes!

Heck, there's even a real baby carved out of fruit! This could make for a very interesting dinner topic. Your 2-year-old will see a banana in a whole other light! Why, that's a baby octopus, she'll retort! Or "ocapus" in 2-year-old speak! This laughter is contagious.

These pages really pop with color and the photos are wonderful! I can just imagine the hours it took these culinary artists to carve each fruit and veggie animal! This award-winning duo have combined on other books involving food so they're not rookies at playing with food!

Buying this book will practically guarantee that your dinner conversations will be a whole lot funnier!

A nicely prepared book for babies and toddlers. This book is best to be read to your child on your lap since it's not a board book and the pages can tear. Pass the chicks (I mean, pears!) and grab this book! It may whet your, and your family's appetite to create your own edible veggies and fruit creations!