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The Bear Chef Children's Books encourage young children to start cooking and to gain confidence in food handling and understanding with the support of an adult. They cover a range of early science concepts and encourage learning in the early years. Carrots Are Very Good For You...Don't You Know! is written specifically for young children and adults to share. It has a carroty poem and is told with beautiful photographs. Can carrots really help your child to see in the dark? Can you grow your own rainbow carrots...and just why are the spotty pigs and cheeky rabbits eating Mr. Willow's carrots? This lovely factual children's book is full of carroty facts and fun- food- activities to help your child really enjoy carrots. It has a link to the poem being read aloud on YouTube. As with his other books Carrots Are Very Good For You...Don't You Know! has a tasty carroty recipe to make together at the end...Mr. Willow's trade mark for encouraging food understanding and healthy eating in the early years. Mr Willow and his dedicated team at Willow Cottage Nurseries, Oxford now hold a Leading Aspect in Education Award for their cutting-edge performance and practice within early year's education.

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Valerie Grady B.Sc. (London) P.G.C.E. (Warwick) E.Y.P.S. (Oxford) Valerie is passionate about re-instating and revitalising basic cookery skills within our homes and schools and believes that we should start this within the curriculum for very young. In order to make healthy food fun for this age group she created Mr. Willow (The Bear Chef) as a healthy children's food hero. Mr. Willow now appears in his own children's books which have been specifically written for children and adults to share. They provide a wealth of educational material and lots of activities to inspire, enable, interest and extend a child's learning. Each book has a practical and healthy recipe to make, to encourage early cookery and healthy eating. Valerie is Founding Director of Education and Child Development at Willow Cottage Nurseries, Oxford, England where she has over 28 years experience in successfully developing suitable recipes, delivering healthy food and fun-food- education for young children. She is a post graduate home economics teacher (Warwick University) with a Food Sciences honours degree (Kings College, London) having recently gained her Early Years Professional Status in Oxford in 2009. As such she has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of a child's nutritional needs and 28 years experience of leading teams of inspirational nursery practitioners to deliver excellence within in the early year's curriculum. As a nation I believe that we are letting our children down in the very way that we are currently feeding and training them. We have childhood obesity at record levels and affiliated diseases like diabetes rapidly on the rise. Mr. Willow's healthy food campaign Nursery Food Matters is set to help fight childhood obesity and to educate children about healthy food right from the start . Mr Willow and his dedicated team at Willow Cottage Nurseries, Oxford now hold a Leading Aspect in Education Award for their cutting-edge performance and practice within early year's education. www.willow-cottage.com The Bear Chef Children's Books, Recipe Books, Fun- Food- Activities and other foodie resources are published in order to share and promote this practice. www.nurseryfood.com

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