Given the book's targeted audience, Rockwell has perhaps gone too far in streamlining her information those above the beginning-reader level may well find the tone of both the art and the text (with the exception of the recipes) somewhat babyish. A practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet, this book explains nutrition from carrots to cookies. Lizzy Rockwell has filled Good Enough to. Good Enough to Eat is one of a kind: the only guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. The only other hands-on aspect of the volume is a vaguely outlined experiment ''to find out where fat is hiding,'' which entails rubbing foods (no specific varieties are suggested) on a piece of paper and examining it for grease stains the following day. What Foods Give You Which Vitamins - Healthy Eating for Kids - Childrens. She concludes with a handful of nutritious, carefully written, kid-friendly recipes.

The author discusses such basics as the importance of eating a balanced diet, the process of digestion, sources of various vitamins and minerals, etc. The palette, unfortunately, is muted or shadowy, so that the pictured foods never look very appetizing.

The compositions are cheerful and sometimes playful, as when a boy dressed in a skeleton costume delivers a message about the value of calcium in building and ''repairing'' bones. Good Enough to Eat is one of a kind: the only guide to kids nutrition written especially for kids. Watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations offer close-up views of a variety of foods and introduce a cast of smiling, wide-eyed kids whose comments (presented in balloons) supplement the facts in the text. Good Enough to Eat Rockwell, Lizzy Published by HarperColl (1999) ISBN 10: 0060274344 ISBN 13: 9780060274344 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Wizard Books (Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. Rockwell (illustrator of My Spring Robin On Show and Tell Day) serves up a simple but often bland introduction to nutrition.

Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell