Kiki Eats Her Vegetables — A Healthy Eating Story | Shalvit Kids TV Storybook No. 52
**"I only want the rice!" — until Mummy turns vegetables into the RAINBOW GAME!** 🌈🥕
Kiki loves her fluffy white rice — but the vegetables? Pushed to the very edge of her plate! Then Mummy spots a rainbow and has a wonderful idea: **eat the rainbow!** One colour a day, one brave bite at a time. Join Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip at the buzzing market, in the garden, and at Grandma's house — where Kiki discovers a delicious secret: **her favourite jollof has been full of vegetables all along!** From scrunchy-face first bites to a proud *"More carrots, please!"*, this joyful story shows little ones that trying new food is brave — and the whole family will be chanting the refrain: **"Crunch, munch, crunch — veggies help me grow!"** 🎵
And Mummy's rule makes it pressure-free, always: *small bites, brave bites — if you don't like it, that's okay, we just TRY.* No forcing, no shaming — just games, colours and celebration. 💛
🌈 **What's inside:**
- A complete, joyful healthy-eating story in short, simple sentences — perfect for ages 2–6 and reading aloud
- **The Rainbow Game**: Monday RED tomatoes, Tuesday ORANGE carrots, Wednesday YELLOW sweet corn, Thursday GREEN ugu and cucumber, Friday PURPLE garden eggs — and a rainbow plate Kiki builds all by herself
- Real Nigerian food life: choosing vegetables at the market, washing carrots, peeling sweet corn, picking ugu in the garden — and **Grandma's jollof secret** (tomatoes, peppers and onions hiding inside!)
- The **Rainbow Plate page** — exactly **5 rainbow vegetables** drawn and numbered 1–5, verified one by one
- **Count the Carrots** (exactly **10**, numbered 1–10) and **Count the Tomatoes** (exactly **6**) — real early maths, drawn and counted in post
- **Match the Vegetable to Its Colour** (exactly 5 pairs), a **Fruit or Vegetable? sorting game** with a full **answer key**, and a **Which Vegetable Am I?** riddle page
- The **Three Brave Steps** poster — LOOK, SMELL, one tiny BITE — the tasting method children remember
- The **Rainbow Song** to sing together, a **My Rainbow Week** tasting tracker, a trace-the-words page, a draw-your-own rainbow plate page, **three colouring pages**, a market seek-and-find, and a printable **Rainbow Eater Certificate**
- A two-page **For Parents & Grown-Ups** guide: pressure-free tasting tips, the brave-bite method, washing and kitchen safety, and every activity **answer key**
🎓 **What your child will learn:**
- 🥕 A happy, brave attitude to new foods — trying is celebrated, never forced
- 🌈 The five rainbow colours matched to real vegetables — colour learning that sticks
- 🔢 Counting to 10 with carrots and tomatoes, numbered and verified
- 🍌 Sorting fruits from vegetables — early science and sorting skills
- 🛒 Nigerian food culture: the market, the garden, ugu leaves, garden eggs and Grandma's jollof
- ❤️ The heart lesson of the story: *"Trying new foods is brave — colourful food helps me grow strong."*
📖 **Book details:**
- **68 pages** of glossy, colourful, cinema-quality 3D artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip
- Ages **2–6** — toddlers, preschool and nursery; ideal for picky-eater seasons, healthy-eating themes and mealtime reading
- **PDF — instant download** after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the chart, certificate and activity pages at home
- Storybook No. 52 in the Shalvit Kids TV series — collect them all, starting with *Kiki Counts to Ten*! Pairs perfectly with *Kiki Plants a Garden* (No. 43) and *Bibo Washes His Hands* (No. 40)
**Perfect for:** picky eaters, healthy-eating learning themes, preschool and nursery classes, Sunday school, market and garden units, and every little one learning to be brave at the table.
From the makers of *Kiki Counts to Ten* — watch the songs and stories on YouTube: search **Shalvit Kids TV**. 🎵
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