I Won’t Eat That

Description

This is a hilarious, heart-warming portrayal of a father-daughter relationship. It places equal emphasis on the scale of a chid’s imagination as well as the quiet resourcefulness of a doting parent.

On Monday, Chinna is acting out the story of a princess and a wizard. Appa asks her to try his yummy aloo paratha and curd. She refuses, picturing Appa as an evil wizard, who has her trapped in a dark room filled with bats, asking her to sample food that gives off suspicious green fumes.

So Chinna has bread and butter for lunch.

On Tuesday, Chinna is building a house of blocks for her pet dinosaur. Appa comes to her room with a plate of delectable tomato rice. Chinna makes a face, imagining Appa handing her a serving of food, while she is cornered against the wall of a smelly cave, with a large dinosaur looking in.

So Chinna has bread and butter for lunch.

On Wednesday, Appa meets Chinna at the balcony when she is a pirate sailing her paper boat through choppy waters. He carries a bowl of the most inviting spaghetti. Chinna doesn’t budge. In her head, she sees herself fighting Pirate-Appa as he holds a bowl from which a slimy, green octopus grows.

So Chinna has bread and butter for lunch.

On Thursday, Appa gives Chinna her bread and butter. Then he sits down and takes a bite of his own lunch.

How does this pan out?

Complete with interesting, new vocabulary (such as “oopy”, “gluggy”, and “wuggy”) from the popular award-winning writer Lavanya Karthik and vibrant, eye-catching illustrations from Pia Alize Hazarika, this is a book that is bound to entertain parents and children alike.