Eat Your Superpowers! : How Colorful Foods Keep You Healthy and Strong (Hardcover)

This is such a clever book! It looks a bit like a board book at first, with the unfinished edges of its cover. Yet, each of its many pages within features photos of colorful foods, surrounded by simple pen-and-ink drawings which place the foods in an illustration that explains the benefits each food offers, For example, two cashews are changed into headphones or a bunch of red grapes become a caring adult helping a child with allergies. The text itself is both simple and eye-opening, briefly describing how the foods help us to heal and be healthy, and then naming the nutrients that specifically help. For example, “Cashews protect your hearing when sounds around you get too loud (magnesium).” Or, “Red grapes help you fight drippy, sneezy allergies (quercetin).” The book arranges the foods by color ranges, with colored tabs on the outside edges. My little ones love to have me read the book to them, which I enjoy, too. They've started to request specific foods for their health benefits, like kiwis for thinking or tofu for teeth, which is a wonderful habit to grow into.