Eat up, Gemma

by Panzita, Mariela

Worried about how to deal with your baby’s first meals? Eat up, Gemma, by Sarah Hayes, treats this issue with humour in this simple but wonderful story about a baby who is learning how to eat.

Gemma, is a coloured skin baby girl whose entire family is trying to make her eat without any success and although her family and other people offer the girl different kinds of food, they can’t make her eat and when her mother and father are getting desperate because of this situation, a hilarious episode takes place at the church when Gemma tries to eat some fake fruit. This calls her brother’s attention who solves this problem with lots of imagination, building a hat with some fruit at home.

In this book, Sarah Hayes tries to demonstrate that children don’t see food as we adults see it. She shows trough this lovely story that imagination could be an important factor when we prepare our kids meals. 

Your children will love this story in which a difficult issue as nutrition is treated in a simple and funny way. Don’t miss it!