Oliver's Vegetables - Vivian French

Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French and Illustrated by Alison Bartlett. You can buy this book from Amazon for £4.49 (paperback). I would say the book is suitable for children aged 3 years and over. This is another book that my daughters got in there story sacks at nursery. The nursery tried to get the children more involved with the book by putting knitted vegetables and knitted characters that are in the book in the sack. I think this help my daughters enjoy the book as they got to pretend to act out the book with the characters. The books front cover has a picture of Oliver on holding some carrots with his Grandpas vegetable patch behind him ...  Read the complete review

Oliver's Vegetables A lovely, simply written book to encourage children to eat their vegetables, and to get across the simple message that vegetables are good for you. **Story and Illustrations** The story starts with Oliver's mum hurrying him along, and encouraging him to eat his meal (looks like chips) so that they can go to Grandpa's house. Oliver thinks that the best thing about Grandpa's house is the garden, and the illustration does indeed show a rather well set out vegetable garden- rows and rows of neatly planted vegetables. It's a good start to ask children what vegetables they think are growing in the garden; I always ...  Read the complete review