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Leaf, Munro

Brushing Your Teeth Can Be Fun: And Lots of Other Good Ideas for How to Grow Up Healthy, Strong, and Smart

55 pp. | Universe | February, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7893-1594-6 $14.95
Reissue (1943, Stokes)

(3) K-3 Originally published as Health Can Be Fun, this book contains no-nonsense advice that still applies. With plenty of humor, further enlivened by Leaf's stick-figure illustrations, it covers such basics as drinking milk, eating vegetables, and exercising. The brisk tone ("GO TO BED when you should and STOP fussing about it like a two-year-old") may be welcomed by today's harried parents.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz