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FOOD! We all need it to live – and here is a book bursting with information, questions and ideas about the food we eat, where it comes from and how it is shared.

Is there enough food to go round? Do some countries have too much? Should we all eat organic food or go vegetarian? Where does the food on our plates start from and how does it get to us? Is farming making climate change worse – and, most important of all, how can we feed everyone on our planet, now and in the future?

Created by bestselling superstars Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith, the team behind The Great Big Books series, this is a brilliant, inspirational and diverse exploration of FOOD, with witty and thought-provoking illustrations.

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An attractively presented book with dynamic use of full colour cartoon people and speech bubbles throughout, this is an in-depth look at the practices of food harvesting, distribution and consumption, including up-to-date information on ultra-processed foods, climate change and future developments.

Although advertised on the publisher’s website as being suitable for 4+, and also looking fairly young in presentation, the text feels more advanced. It assumes a fair amount of reader background knowledge, both because the sentences require inference, and also because of the opinionated tone of the text – there are no modifiers of ‘some people think’- opinion is stated as fact. Moreover, occasionally, the speech bubbles of the cartoons are hard to decipher in terms of positioning and nuance, so the reader may not be sure where they fit and if they are fact or opinion. Saying that, there is a lot of information provided, including processing, packaging, cooking, food banks and food waste, issues of distribution and so much more.

It is worth stocking in the school library, but this is a book that warrants explanation and discussion. It will certainly provoke it.

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