Viva Lewes Issue #149 February 2019

BOOK REVIEW
WE EAT BANANAS
BY KATIE ABEY
Get your little ones talking about the foods they eat
(or perhaps don’t eat?!) with the fantastically funny We
Eat Bananas by Katie Abey. You’ll find flamingos eating
bananas, hippos flipping pancakes and gorillas whipping
up a stir fry, in this ‘You Choose’ style picture book
packed with hilarious characters. Each page starts with
a heading (‘We Eat… Sandwiches’, for example) and
contains loads of fun illustrations of animal characters
enjoying a variety of examples of that food type. Apart from Monkey, who always does his own
thing, and is always munching on something completely different from everyone else! There’s lots
to discover and talk about on each page and questions to ask each other, like ‘What do you like in
YOUR soup?’ and ‘How many scoops (of ice cream) could YOU eat?’
Anna, Bags of Books
Perfect for young children of about 2-5 years old and now 20% off as one of the ‘Books
of the Month’ at Bags of Books. Find it in store or at bags-of-books.co.uk. And there are
plenty of other great picture books that will inspire any picky eaters to broaden their food
horizons – just pop in and ask for our recommendations!
LEWES ABC
I IS FOR IGUANODON…
We’ve had this picture book – Lewes abc, by Karen Robinson –
floating around the Viva office for some time, and now seems a
very good moment to give it a mention, with half term around the
corner. I’m certain my kids would have relished this at the right
age – they always liked puzzle-type books, as well as alphabet-based
ones – and the Lewes abc has the additional magic of being based
around our hometown. A trail you can walk out of your front door and follow.
The book can be bought in various sites across Lewes, one of which is Tourist Information, and this
month you’ll also see it included as part of their window display, I’m told, alongside promotion for
the annual Gideon Mantell Birthday Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture will be given by wildlife
specialist Ray Hale, and is entitled ‘Gideon Mantell: The Dinosaur Doctor of Lewes and the Fossil
that Changed the World’. Also sound fun? Learning how the young doctor, from the seed of one
small fossil, deduced that dinosaurs had once roamed these Downs… Charlotte Gann
The 2019 Gideon Mantell Birthday Memorial Lecture is on February 7th in the Town Hall, 7.30pm-
10.00pm, entry £3. Lewes abc: A Treasure of a Trail, £8.99, can be bought in Brats, TI, Lewes Castle and
Museum shop, Anne of Cleves House, Lewes FC, and Pells pool (once it reopens)