Susan Smith Jones is a leading voice for healthy, balanced living in America today. She is the author of 12 books, including Choose to Live Peacefully and A Fresh Start, and over 500 magazine articles with her picture on several covers. For over 30 years, Susan taught health and fitness at UCLA. Her inspiring message and innovative techniques for achieving total health in body, mind and spirit have won her an enthusiastic following and have put her in high demand as a holistic health consultant and motivational speaker. A gifted teacher, Susan brings together modern research and ageless wisdom in all her work.
	Diane Warren earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree and Lifetime Elementary Teaching Credential from the University of California, Irvine. She has worked with students and teachers from preschool through junior college with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education. Diane lives with her husband in Florida where she conducts workshops on children and nutrition.
	Amy Sorvaag Lindman received a Bachelor of Commercial Art degree from the Oregon College of Art in Ashland, Oregon. Calligrapher and artist, Amy lives in central Washington with her husband and two daughters and her favorite fox terrier. Amy is a busy wife and mother, and makes times to be active in outdoor sports and physical fitness. Her creative work is inspired by living in the "Apple Capital of the World", which provides endless vistas of stunningly dramatic mountains and thousands of acres of orchards with their dozens of varieties of apples, pears, cherries, and other fruit.

The Fruit Bowl and Vegetable Soup
by Dianne Warren, Susan Smith Jones and Amy Sorvaag Lindman
$14.95

Softcover - 64 pages

The Nutritional ABC's

This book has beautiful and colorful illustrations on every page.

The primary purpose of Vegetable Soup and The Fruit Bowl is to build an awareness of and appreciation for nutritionally sound foods—fruits and vegetables—through an entertaining and informative reading experience. This is best accomplished by encouraging the child to be an active participant in the reading process. Each illustration has been carefully put together to foster interaction between you, the reader, and the child.

When using a questioning technique to take advantage of the child's natural eagerness to learn, you will be increasing knowledge, developing skills and creating a series of successes for the child. This promotes a healthy self-esteem and positive attitude about learning in general. Through using a series of questions, the reader will be building the child's math and reading readiness skills, ability to recognize shapes and colors, powers of observation and vocabulary while, at the same time, increasing his knowledge and appreciation of fruits and vegetables as vital to his health and well-being.

FOR EXAMPLE: All illustrations will have many objects beginning with the same letter as the featured fruit or vegetable. Questions like "How many other things start with the letter B?" or "What S words do you see in the verse?" will facilitate reading readiness. "How many peas are in the pod?" and "How many ladybugs do you see?" build math readiness. "What is yellow?" or "What color is the eggplant?" and "What do you see that is round?" provide practice for color and shape recognition. Turn it around and let the child question you, too.

The verse will supply the child with information regarding the fruit or vegetable's health benefit and/or its growth pattern. In The Fruit Bowl, the corners of each illustration either represent the four seasons for all fruit bearing trees or the growth patterns (plant, bloom, harvest and cut ripe fruit) for plants and vines. The verse is in easy-to-read script to help with letter identification and sight reading development.

Each page can stand on its own, so read only as many as the child's attention span can handle. Also, your questions will reflect the developmental level of each child. This book works well in small groups or in one-on-one situations.