This is possibly one of my favourite children's books that I have read so far. Having seen it used within a Year 1 classroom during a week's work experience, I decided to revisit it for my first book of the challenge. Science: the healthy eating plate – this book really makes vegetables exciting, which is such a bonus for encouraging children to eat their 5-a-day. In personifying the vegetables in a positive way, it creates a real buzz and excitement for eating fruit and veg, so this can be reinforced by teaching them about healthy eating and balanced diets.

An innovative concept, playing on the excitement of superheroes but with a real twist: it is all about vegetables, a superhero potato, and a mischievous evil pea causing havoc in the supermarket isles. This book is both a fun and entertaining read, perfect for a class story-time, but also has so many practical applications within the classroom. It is great for EYFS and Year 1 stage, but it could definitely be applied in the Year 2 classroom and beyond depending on the activities. Just to name a few, this book by Sue Hendra could be used for:

English: making storyboards, alternative endings, predictions, adding their own dialogue into the story, creating their own "Supertato saves the day story", write a newspaper report about the supermarket incident, rewrite the story from the Supertato or Evil Pea’s point of view, and more! Art/design: make your own super veggie superhero – either design on paper, using craft materials or, even better, with a real vegetable!