How Do You Eat Color?
How Do You Eat Color? by Mabi David is a vibrant children’s book published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in 2025. This 40-page edition invites young readers on a colorful journey through a variety of fruits and vegetables, exploring how different colors can represent distinct tastes. The narrative follows a boy, a girl, and their chameleon as they discover the flavors of red tomatoes, yellow pineapples, and purple yams throughout their day.
Readers will find an imaginative exploration of healthy eating, featuring produce from the Philippines and around the world. The book encourages children to engage with a diverse array of foods, from carrots to dragon fruit, while also providing informative back matter that promotes healthy eating habits and ways to incorporate plants into meals. This engaging approach not only entertains but also educates young readers about geography and cultures through the lens of food.
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“Truly engaging . . . lyrical and vibrant.” — Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
A day’s journey through a rainbow of fruits and vegetables.
Do you know how red tastes? What about blue, orange, purple, or even white? As a boy, a girl, and their chameleon go through their day, they meet a bounty of colorful fruits and vegetables. They wake up with bright tomatoes and hibiscus, taste sunshine in yellow pineapples and mangoes, yawn with purple yams, and drift off to sleep as the colors darken to black.
Translated from Filipino, this imaginative book features produce harvested from the Philippines and around the world. Whether children love carrots, moringa, dragon fruit, eggplants, or red beans, How Do You Eat Color? offers them dozens of different–and delicious–opportunities to eat something new. Engaging back matter after the story will help readers explore healthy eating and learn ways to incorporate plants into their meals.
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