The World of Fruit: The Healing Properties of Fruit (Storyteller's Guide to Healthy Food) [Paperback]

30 stories, tasks and creative games about fruits. Each story
is delivered in an entertaining fairy-tale representational form and tells
about a particular fruit, its importance in daily diet, its values and the
book concludes with healthy recipes.

Parent/Teacher Resource now available in English.

This resource book, a bestseller in the authors' native country of Russia,
is aimed at those educating 7-10 year olds (KS1&2, Grade 1/2+) and may be
used in a classroom or home education setting. Within are 30 stories, tasks
and creative games about fruits. Each story is given as an entertaining
fairy or folk tale form and tells about a particular fruit, its importance
in daily diet, its values and the book concludes with a set of healthy
recipes.

"How can we help teachers remember that a person is born in
the world to create? How can we help our children develop in themselves
those precious sparks of creativity? How can we turn our schools (and
homes) into places of wisdom and humanity? ...What, above all, should we
introduce to our children, what should we bring into their hearts and souls
if not this ocean of spiritual aspiration, which has been recorded for us
in the lives and work of writers and poets, artists and storytellers,
composers and musicians, pedagogues and philosophers? ... It is for us and
for our children that they have sown the seeds of spiritual virtues in
their creative work and in their lives."

Alexandra Lopatina is a former pre-school teacher who also holds
degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Psychology.

Maria Skrebtsova is a former French teacher.

Both are best-selling authors in their native Russia.

INTRODUCTION
How to stay healthy? Make sure we get enough vitamins. We all know that
but how can we get children to eat what's good for them? The answer to
that one isn't so hard either: teach them to love fruits, berries and
vegetables - the best source of vitamins. But there's no point in telling
a child, "Eat this, it's good for you!". We need a special language - the
language of stories. The `Storyteller's Guide to Health' series presents
the healthy and healing gifts of nature in captivating and warm-hearted
tales narrated by children, adults and their friends from the world of
fruits, berries, vegetables and grains. Volume One is devoted to fruits
and berries, Volume Two talks about vegetables, and Volume Three introduces
us to the world of herbs, nuts, honey and grains.

A healthy lifestyle includes the ability to draw sensibly on the
vitamin-rich treasures our world provides. So often we pass them by... and
pay dearly for our indifference. But it's never too late to change,
especially if there's a little one in the family, a child whose life is
just beginning.

For anyone interested in their child's well-being, "The Storyteller's
Guide to Health" series is sure to be of value. At the end of the
selection of delightful stories, questions and activities you'll also find
recipes for the vitamin-conscious kitchen. The recipes are simple,
allowing children to prepare dishes themselves with only minimal
supervision, and are also designed to preserve the largest possible share
of vitamins and other nutrients in the final serving.

How often we put off thinking about our physical or spiritual health
until we are already struggling to cope with the problems, strains, and
stresses that seem to pop up at every step. Only then do we turn for help
to the healing gifts of nature. Yet if we had known and loved those gifts
from childhood, a lot of those problems might have passed us by altogether.
Here's wishing you love and - GOOD HEALTH!
~ Maria Skrebtsova and Alexandra Lopatina
- the authors