When I Eat Plants: Encourages Healthy Nutrition for Kids

by Mary E Parkinson, Imani P Dumas (Illustrator)

Overview

"When I Eat Plants" provides a positive, happy message to early readers about plant based nutrition. This book nourishes the soul of children while showing them how the choice of eating plants effects the greater world. The simplistic, multicultural drawings will inspire all children to make choices with nature in mind.
Let's eat plants!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732046290
Publisher:	Healthy Planet Press
Publication date:	10/09/2019
Pages:	34
Sales rank:	924,003
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range:	3 - 10 Years

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Review:
Animals celebrate as children extol the benefits of a plant-based diet in this picture book.

Through the pages of this earnest picture book about how a vegan diet can help the planet and the creatures on it, children hold fruits, grains, and vegetables as they describe how animals react "when I eat plants." Pigs kick back in lounge chairs, chickens dance, a cow chills in a hammock, and deer skip through the woods. And when "we" eat a plant-based diet, the story concludes, "Mother Earth wraps her arms around us in a great, big hug." Parkinson and illustrator Dumas (co-authors: Green Picks 5 Beans, 2019, etc.) shape their timely message with a light touch. Dumas' illustrations, done with childlike awkwardness in what appears to be pen and watercolor, portray comical animals and diverse boys and girls with dark and light hair and different shades of skin. The book ends with four, tasty-sounding, plant-based recipes and a plea to adults "to be honest with children" about how the farming and eating of animals and animal products adversely affects the health of the Earth and all living things. This is followed by information aimed at adults listing ways that eating animal protein affects economics, poverty, the climate, and human health.

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