Just Try One Bite by Adam Mansbach, Camila Alves McConaughey Illustrator: Mike Boldt
Published by Dial Books on March 22, 2022
Source: Gift
Genres: Picture Book
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Go the **** to Sleep and healthy eating advocate Camila Alves McConaughey comes a whimsical role reversal in which picky eater parents are confronted by their three kids, with hilarious results
These three kids are determined to get their parents to put down the ice cream, cake, and chicken fried steak to just try one bite of healthy whole foods. But it's harder than it looks when these over-the-top gagging, picky parents refuse to give things like broccoli and kale a chance. Kids will love the jaunty rhyme that's begging to be read aloud and the opportunity to be way smarter--and healthier--than their parents.
I made an unofficial resolution to review every book I read this year. I don’t usually review kids books. They are typically ones I just happen to pick up and read without much planning. I work at a United Way and we’re the local partner for Dolly Parton’s Imagination library, which means books with wrong address get returned here. Just Try One Bite is one of those.
It’s a book about smart, healthy kids trying to convince their parents to eat better. I will say the bits about the parents not liking broccoli and trying to feed it to the dog hit a little close to home.
The illustrations are cute, colorful and feature a multi-racial family, which is nice.
I don’t have any kids in the household and don’t know how much they would enjoy it. And it did not convince me to eat my broccoli – I can just buy donut holes on my own and eat them all myself.
About Adam Mansbach
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and a dozen other books, most recently the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, and his memoir in verse, I Had a Brother Once. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and his next feature film, Super High, starring Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio’s This American Life, The Moth, and All Things Considered.
About Camila Alves McConaughey
Camila McConaughey McConaughey is a Brazilian-American model, designer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is married to actor Matthew McConaughey and they have three children: Levi, Vida, and Livingston. Alves McConaughey is known for her own career and fan base, and for co-founding the Just Keep Livin’ foundation with her husband. The foundation supports and empowers high school students.
Her children’s book, Just Try One Bite, co-written with Adam Mansbach was released in on March 22, 2022 by Dial Books
I read one or two kid’s books a year. I know a lot of people who have kids so I like getting some recommendations if I can