Give It a Go, Eat a Rainbow Paperback – June 14, 2016

The media could not be loaded.  When I first opened the book, Give It A Go, Eat A Rainbow, I thought this was written about my life 12 years ago. I was like Blake. All I wanted to eat was cake, cookies and sweet treats. My stomach hurt, my health was failing. I was old enough to know better than to eat like that. Then I wised up and started eating healthy. I feel so much better today than I did years ago. I never... ever want to go back to that period in my life.Now, I have young Grandkids. 3 of them eat very healthy and 3 of them don't.My one Granddaughter who is only 4 loves carbs, cheese, sweets and needs to learn to eat more fruits and vegetables. I am surprised because her mother knows to feed her healthy. I can't figure out why she doesn't. The kid is tired all the time. Has no stamina and complains of belly aches. I plan on giving this book to that Granddaughter and her Mother in hopes that they read it and something clicks in their heads. I hope from reading this book they figure out what they are doing wrong, and why she is having stomach problems at such a young age. Before I give it to the granddaughter who needs it, I read it to my other Grandkids. We made a plate of food from the rainbow. I let them choose what they wanted in their rainbow. They loved doing this with me, and because they had a hand in making it, they ate it all up.This interactive book starts out with a young boy named Blake who is sleepy, has tummy aches and just can't keep up with the other kids. Blake likes to eat cookies, candies and all things sweet. One day, Blake meets a friend who helps teach him about nutrition, using fruits and vegetables of rainbow colors.What a fun way to teach kids about healthy eating. If you have a picky eater in your home, this book could help them in a fun interactive way to choose foods that are healthy for them.So.... Give it a go, Eat a rainbow!!

"Don't do this." "You have to do that." These are losing parenting strategies, and also losers for grandparents (like me.) Kids learn best from stories and games. I'm so glad that Kathryn Kemp Guylay has saved me from negative nagging with this book. She saved me also from telling my daughters that they really should be feeding their kids more fruits and veggies.It's funny because as a psychologist who has authored a book for helping children to stop thumbsucking habits,  David Decides About Thumbsucking: A Story for Children, a Guide for Parents , I have long known how powerful biblio-therapy can be. Yet I never would have thought of what this book does, which is to impact kids' choices of what foods to eat. Hurray and huge thanks to this clever nutritionist!I highly recommend also  Solving Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Guide for Frazzled Families . A study researching the impacts of bibliotherapy (though this book is for the parents) versus therapy for families of autistic spectrum kids (and for that matter, any kids) with sleep difficulties, the outcome proved to be that therapy and reading a book could be equally helpful.The bottom line— Give it a Go, Eat a Rainbow has potential to have strong and positive impacts on the children we love and most want to grow up with healthy eating habits.ps, This book even motivated me, the grown-up, to pay more attention to how many and which colors I am eating!

This review is written with the help of my friend Tristan, who is 8 years old. We just read this book together before dinner and it made us both really hungry! We had fun guessing more foods that are bright colours.Here's what Tristan likes about this book:1. I enjoyed the rhyming story2. It was fun to read3. It told me things about food I didn't know4. I enjoyed the food pictures the most -- there were good illustrations.If you have some types of e-reader the wonderful pictures will be in black and white, which is really a shame because this book is full of glorious colour on every page. We recommend buying the print version to enjoy all the pictures. This book is easy to read for children in grade 3 and older. Also would be a good book for them to read to their younger brothers and sisters.

Give It a Go, Eat a Rainbow Like this approach to get kids to eat more healthier. Starts out and we learn that Blake is not feeling so well. He only likes candy and cookies and things that are sweet.The words are rhyming and easy to read on some of the backgrounds.He meets a new friend and he tells Blake how he can get more energy-enough so he can play.There are notes for the parents to ask the child while they are reading along with them to pick out what foods are red and what part of the body they are good for.Like a mini quiz and you've been given the answers to, if you were paying attention. Really like blue and purple pages.

My kindergarten class had fun reading this book along with our nutrition unit. I love that this book doesn’t talk about “good” vs “bad” foods, just food that helps your body have long term energy vs short term energy. Tons of great examples of different kinds of foods, and it’s cool to learn about how different natural colors of food impact our bodies.

Alaia absolutely LOVES this book!!! Thank you SO much for writing it!! Alaia looks at it and wants me to read it to her ALL of the time!! And best of all she's actually tried a couple of new fruits and veggies!! Amazing!!! :) :)Aug 26th...Since Amazon won't let me leave another comment, I will add onto this one...Since I love that I've had SO much success with getting my picky eater daughter to try and to now eat fruits and veggies because of this book, I purchased 2 more to send to my neices and nephews! :) SO excited to give it to them!!

I would like to have seen the book go into some more detail on specific foods for each color, and maybe a bit more info on how these foods help your body but it does introduce young children to the idea of eating a variety of fruits and vegetables.

I liked the illustrations and overall message of the book. It is smaller than I thought it would be but it kept the Pre-School entertained. Super educational and is engaging for 3-4 year olds, mostly. It does look like a home-job of drawings but overall it’s a great book if you’re not looking for pictures to look like amazing art pieces.

Ok book, important concept. A bit boring. Good condition upon arrival.