“Eat up, Gemma” is a wonderful and lovely story in which a whole family encourage baby Gemma to eat. The author, Sarah Hayes, uses simple language to describe funny situations of a family dealing with common problems of a baby. The author´s choice that Gemma´s elder brother narrates the story makes it much warmer and more sensitive.
Baby Gemma decides not to eat and when she hears her mum, dad or grandma saying “Eat up, Gemma”, she throws her breakfast on the floor or gives her dinner to the dog. All family´s attempts to encourage Gemma to eat fail. A Sunday morning at church, Gemma becomes fascinated with an unusual hat of a woman. This amusing situation gives her elder brother an intelligent idea to solve the problem.
Along the story the author manages to combine humour, worries and smartness which make “Eat up, Gemma” a great story.
Recommended for preschoolers and younger. They will reflect on it ; and even their parents !
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