Luna & Alook's Funny food book is about some of the different cuisines that you can try around the world. Alook wants to eat everything, whether it is naughty, sensible, spicy or culturally different as in garden weeds. But his new sophisticated South American friend Luna tries to educate and show Alook about the importance of eating nutritious fruits, vegetables and packing healthy lunches. This book is about the culinary adventures of these two fun loving birds. This book comes with two songs; one has a jazzy element to it and the other hip hop. This showcases how the same lyrics of a song can be sung two different ways. Music is a form of expression and it is wonderful for children to freely explore the world around them through sound. Children are naturally creative and love to explore everything new and amazing. Most young children love to sing, dance and make music. This children's book has vibrant eye-catching colorful illustrations, which help children visualize the story. Color is a dynamic stimulation and plays a very important role in learning, as research has shown that 50-60 percent of our brain is used for seeing. Alook is a fun loving, friendly, and a little quirky bird that enjoys lots of adventure and traveling around the world. He is on a mission to entertain and delight all of our wonderful children. Along his journeys, he likes to collect memorabilia to remind him of the wonderful memories and special friendships that he makes along the way. In this rhyming story Alook and his new friend, Luna show how different foods are eaten in other countries. Luna & Alook's Funny Food Book is entertaining and is perfect for preschoolers at bedtime as well as a self-read book for older children. It is also a great rhyming book for toddlers and a perfect early reader book. Rhyming teaches children who are learning to read about the patterns and structures in both spoken and written words. Rhyming and songs expose children to the rhythm of language, which helps them read with some animation in their voice instead of just a monotone voice. Rhyming also helps children learn about word families such as fun and sun, or wide and stride and so on. For instance, if your child is learning to spell, if they can spell mood, they can spell food and if they can spell rice they can spell spice. Have you ever seen kids sitting and happily listening to someone reading in a monotone voice? I haven't. If you want to hold a child's attention, read with inflection and animation, and they will sit glued to your voice. Rhyming and rhythm are very important skills that help a young reader learn to use inflection an animation when reading aloud. Rhyming also prepares kids to make predictions while learning words and gives them crucial interpreting skills. Another free download that comes with Luna & Alook's Funny Food Book is an audio MP3 file of the author Kimberley Kleczka introducing the story and reading the book. Your children can read along with Luna & Alook or just listen and have fun.