This is a picture of some enthusiastic young readers who are very excited about their new book. St Anne’s School are the currently leading the way for the rest of New Zealand with their participation in a new food education program I have developed called ‘What’s for Lunch?’

The program works with the primary school curriculum to teach children about making healthy choices. The pupils learn about a new healthy food mainly vegetables every week through an interactive story, science experiment, recipe and worksheet. The program launched at the beginning of 2014 and is in use in many schools throughout the lower north island.

The book has now been out for two weeks and sales are growing by the day. But I thought I would write a small post about some of the feedback and stories of the children reading the book. I had the pleasure of reading it to two very lovely and polite children last night, a three-year old boy and a five-year old girl they both listened patiently as I read to them, a little shy but eager to hear the story. As the story started to build the three-year old could not contain his excitement, each time I turned the page he couldn’t wait for me to read the words out, he just had to tell me ‘There’s a Cat!’ ‘There’s a Dog!’ It was very nice seeing the excitement build as the story was told.

I had another report that a one year old was asking where the chicken was as he was looking for the actual bird not a cooked chicken, very cute:)

The overall feedback has been that children are having a great time following the fly throughout the pages and are able to remember some of the lines and join in with reading the story out loud. It has become the new favourite in many households and is being read repeatedly after endless requests.

I love hearing feedback about the readers of the book so send me your own stories and feedback or images.

I’m over the moon with how well the book is being received by children everywhere I have visited! If you have any photos or stories of children enjoying the book please send them my way as it would be great to share on this site. If you are a teacher or work at a school or childcare center please let me know as I am going to start school visits very soon.

For those of you who haven’t bought a copy yet and would like to the shop page on this site is the best place to buy it. I will even sign it for you if you specify in your order

I had a very exciting day yesterday with the long awaited arrival of 1000 copies of my very first children’s book ‘Catch that fly!‘ I received a phone call from the courier at about 1.30pm saying they would be there in 20mins. I jumped on my bike and roared down the road to the drop off point (First Star Communications, thanks again) only to find a massive pallet sitting on the footpath. So the 3 men and I split it up and carried 50 boxes up the flight of stairs, where they crowded the entrance way in a massive cardboard wall. I then jumped back on my bike and zoomed home to grab the car. I went back and with the help of my two lovely sisters we carried the 50 boxes down the stairs and loaded them into my car. With my car ridding extra low I managed to drive home without too much damage. I then realised I would have to get them all out of my car and up another flight of stairs to my living room! I decided to let them sit there a few hours until my boyfriend got home and gave me a hand. Then finally my books made it to my living room where they are currently safe and sound. Now I must find nice homes for each and every one of them.