Did you ever wonder what those noises were inside your tummy? If you listen closely you’ll hear a whole zoo of animals, waiting to be fed!
This book makes eating good food exciting and puts imagination into mealtime. Soon, your kids may be eating up this idea for themselves, and leaving clean plates behind! Feed their imaginations and their bellies with The Zoo in My Belly. The first in a series of mealtime books by Doctor Magoomagraf.
This book teaches kids several things:
- Identifying animals, fruits and vegetables
- Learning their colors
- How to think about mealtime in a positive way
- Encourages kids to eat a variety of foods by seeking out new colors to put on their plate
- Involves children in making their own nutrition choices early in life, forming lifetime habits
- Large print in an easy to read font helps children learn letters and how to read simple (and some not so simple) words.
Plus free eating charts are available for download for registered members that have purchased the book. Grocery shopping lists for kids are also coming soon.
The other great thing about this book is that once kids are familiar with the idea, they begin to suggest their own ideas of how they can eat a variety of things. Children in England and the US have really taken to the idea, getting excited about mealtime. Here is what they have to say on their first day of trying it out:
“Today I fed a tiger, a polar bear, a giraffe and a penguin!
I finished my whole plate! My zoo is happy.”
—Laura, age 5
After Laura finished her plate, her family clapped for her feeding her zoo. When her younger sister Megan (age 3) saw this, she decided to come back to the table to finish her meal. She decided she wasn’t finished eating after all. The next day after school, Laura and Megan asked to eat a banana and apple instead of potato chips and sweets.
“Rrrarr! I fed my tigers, they like to jump on the food that I put in my tummy.
I took 10 bites and I fed 10 tigers. That’s a lot of tigers.”
—Eddie, age 4
Eddie got really excited about tigers in his tummy, and made up stories of how the animals in his belly might like the different kinds of food on his plate. He would often ask how many animals were in his tummy to figure out how many bites he should eat.
Do you have a quote from your little zookeeper? Leave a comment and share!
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