This has been one of my favourite board books to recommend for a while now. When I start to explain that it's about a girl who's body parts fall off one by one, I get mixed reactions to say the least! Some people are horrified and I go on to show them something slightly more 'appropriate' for a small child but others absolutely love it (I'm one of those people!)
I actually first came across the book whilst I was looking after a little lad one evening and he picked this as his bedtime story. I'd seen it before but never actually read it so we settled down and started to read... A little shocked at first as it wasn't what I was expecting but ended up loving it! The boy's reaction was the best - he genuinely couldn't stop laughing, endless giggles and chuckles from the then two and a half year old.
Obviously many fantastic children's books have caused reaction before but with this one in particular it has now happened to every child I have read this book to (of course this could be my incredible talent as a storyteller, but somehow I think it's more likely to be the story...) It's got a great moral too; if you don't eat your vegetables, you can't make vegetable glue which stops your body parts falling off of you!
Spanish Odriozola's illustrations accompany the story perfectly with her muted colours and gorgeous patterns (such as the girl's dress - pictured left)
Recommended age 1 and a half+
Published by Meadowside Children's Books as a board book and is £3.99
