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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
By Lauren Childs
Candlewick Press

For every picker eater out there and for every parent of a picky eater child, this is the book for you. The story is told by Charlie, the older brother of Lola who refuses to eat a vast array of foods. Rather than try fruitlessly to convince Lola to eat any of these foods, Charlie takes an unconventional approach: he renames each of food that Lola refuses to eat and creates a wild story to go along with the new name. For example, peas are no longer peas:  they are green drops from Greenland that fall from the sky and are very rare. Lola gobbles them up. On and on the story goes with Lola eating all the food she had previously disdained. In the end, Lola turns the tables on Charlie which makes her the “winner” in this amusing wordplay between siblings. The illustrations are a lovely combination of real photographs of food interspersed with cartoon-like drawings of the children and their home.