A year of stories & recipes from the veggie patch. A gentle fun way to encourage children to love their fruit & veg with charming picture stories they will want to read again & again. Each month in the veggie patch a fruit or vegetable character has an adventure. All of the characters scenery & weather are in season for that month of the year. It will help children to become more familiar with fruits & veggies & associate foods with the time of year that they are tastiest most nutritious best for the environment & cheapest! Each book also contains fun facts about the star of the story & a recipe which children can cook with minimal adult help. Studies have shown that children are more likely to enjoy eating fruits & vegetables if they are more familiar with them & that even exposing children regularly to pictures of fruit & vegetables can make them eat more of them! Many of the reader families have reported that their children's acceptance of fruit & veg has increased after bringing these stories into their family & that their children ask to read the stories over & over again. This collection contains all twelve months of the year so you can read a story find out about its main character & cook a recipe with your children every month for a whole year. These make a great present because the set can be revisited every month so its a gift that lasts throughout the whole year. 32 pages full colour with story facts & recipe pages.