Gregory, the Terrible Eater

Kids will laugh at the backwards problem in the book and the illustrations, while not superb, ARE very funny. Added bonus, of course, is the message about eating balanced meals, always a hard sell to french fry fans.

Like all mothers, Gregory's mom struggles to get her little goat to eat a well-balanced diet. When she offers him tires and tin cans, all Gregory wants to eat are fruits and vegetables. But Gregory's mom is persistent and she convinces him to try just one little bite. Soon Gregory's new-found love of food has him eating everything. Will Gregory's mom be able to curb his appetite and teach him balanced eating once and for all?

In this old picture book (I remember watching it on Reading Rainbow!), Gregory is a goat who worries his parents with his "unhealthy" diet - instead of junk from around their junkyard home, he asks for eggs, toast and veggies.

This is a funny story about compromise and eating healthfully.

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"Gregory, the Terrible Eater" is a book about a little goat who does not particularly like the average diet of a goat. Instead of craving trash, rubber tires, and shoelaces, Gregory dreams of eating veggies, fruits, and pasta. His parents are concerned about him and his bad diet, and are working hard to try to get him to eat what he should be. To do this, they try adding in goat foods a little bit at a time, and mixing it in with the foods that Gregory loves. This book would be perfect with the younger grades for a read aloud, and there are several good lesson plan ideas that are available online to accompany it. You could talk about the ideas of adding in foods that kids do not like, but are good for them. It is entertaining, and certainly accessible to children. The lesson plans that go with this book encourage talking about the food pyramid, and it also works on reading food advertisements.

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