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Cheery Street
Snack, Please!: A Cheery Street Story
Banana chips! Rice cakes! When Gertie wants to eat only snacks, her dad shares the joy of growing, making, and sharing your own food in this adorable picture book from the creator of Carry Me!
Gertie LOVES snacks! All kinds of snacks: sofa snacks, bath snacks, bedtime snacks . . . Isn’t everything better with a snack? But the delicious meals Daddy is making for her are going uneaten, and snacks are all that Gertie can talk about. Could a day in Grandma’s community garden plot be just the thing to help Gertie see everything she’s missing—and find the inspiration she’s looking for? With characteristic warmth and humor, Georgie Birkett explores small children’s exasperating eating habits, capturing the ups and downs of parenting life through a very endearing father-daughter mouse duo.
Gertie LOVES snacks! All kinds of snacks: sofa snacks, bath snacks, bedtime snacks . . . Isn’t everything better with a snack? But the delicious meals Daddy is making for her are going uneaten, and snacks are all that Gertie can talk about. Could a day in Grandma’s community garden plot be just the thing to help Gertie see everything she’s missing—and find the inspiration she’s looking for? With characteristic warmth and humor, Georgie Birkett explores small children’s exasperating eating habits, capturing the ups and downs of parenting life through a very endearing father-daughter mouse duo.
32 pages, Hardcover
Published October 15, 2024
About the author
Georgie Birkett
108 books8 followersI live and work in the beautiful hilly town of Lewes, near Brighton with my husband, two sons and two cats. I have made lots of children’s books, working with many publishers including PenguinRandomHouse, Macmillan and Bloomsbury. Making children's books is the best job ever and so fun, I knew this would be my job even when I was in primary school!
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March 8, 2024
When the lovely people at Walker Books sent me a copy of this book, I was instantly attracted by the title. The reason being that "snack" was my grandson's first word. He completely skipped "mama, dada" and "nana" and went straight in at "snack." Clearly a boy who knows his own mind.
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January 4, 2025
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Gertie's father has been feeding her a wide variety of delicious foods ever since she was a baby, and is modeling awesome behavior about food and nutrition. At some point, though, Gertie experiences SNACKS, and soon that is all she wants to eat. Her father is rather liberal with these (crackers in the bath?), to the point where Gertie is no longer hungry for his nutritious homemade meals. To try to get her to back off on snacking a bit, Gertie's father takes her to her grandmother's garden where they spend the day working in the earth. After that, Gertie plans a party with her friends, and makes a tomatoes bean surprise soup for them. She willingly eats this, and even says that she is too full for snacks. Her father might have an easier go of it... until Gertie discovers desserts.
As a mother whose daughter (at almost 30) still eats a lot more Cheerios than most people (I was very boring when it came to snacks), I can definitely sympathize with Gertie's father. He's giving his daughter nutritious, homemade food most of the time, but once snacks sneak in, it's hard to go back. Having Gertie visit her grandmother's garden and then use the produce to cook for her friends is a great strategy, even though I don't believe that she stays away from snacks for long.
Gertie and her father, who are most likely mice, are shown hanging out with a wide variety of animals as friends, employing the picture book logic that elephants, pigs, and rabbits are all the same size. I even spotted Wilbur and his mother from this author's Carry Me! in the park scene! They engage in familiar every day activities that will resonate with young readers.
The digitally created pictures are nicely bright and cheery, and since Gertie and her father spend a lot of time outside, have a lot of green in them. The fun, bold font is easy to read, and is set apart from the illustrations so it is easy to see. There's just the right amount of words for frequent rereading should this become a favorite.
This book gave me a lot to think about when it comes to children and food, and I need to do some research on the best way to get children to understand that a constant diet of snacks isn't a great choice. Put Snack, Please on your menu of picture books along with Whittingham's Bunny Loves Beans, Mucha's Welcome to Our Table, Buzzeo's Eat Your Superpowers, and Alary's The Sun in My Tummy.
Gertie's father has been feeding her a wide variety of delicious foods ever since she was a baby, and is modeling awesome behavior about food and nutrition. At some point, though, Gertie experiences SNACKS, and soon that is all she wants to eat. Her father is rather liberal with these (crackers in the bath?), to the point where Gertie is no longer hungry for his nutritious homemade meals. To try to get her to back off on snacking a bit, Gertie's father takes her to her grandmother's garden where they spend the day working in the earth. After that, Gertie plans a party with her friends, and makes a tomatoes bean surprise soup for them. She willingly eats this, and even says that she is too full for snacks. Her father might have an easier go of it... until Gertie discovers desserts.
As a mother whose daughter (at almost 30) still eats a lot more Cheerios than most people (I was very boring when it came to snacks), I can definitely sympathize with Gertie's father. He's giving his daughter nutritious, homemade food most of the time, but once snacks sneak in, it's hard to go back. Having Gertie visit her grandmother's garden and then use the produce to cook for her friends is a great strategy, even though I don't believe that she stays away from snacks for long.
Gertie and her father, who are most likely mice, are shown hanging out with a wide variety of animals as friends, employing the picture book logic that elephants, pigs, and rabbits are all the same size. I even spotted Wilbur and his mother from this author's Carry Me! in the park scene! They engage in familiar every day activities that will resonate with young readers.
The digitally created pictures are nicely bright and cheery, and since Gertie and her father spend a lot of time outside, have a lot of green in them. The fun, bold font is easy to read, and is set apart from the illustrations so it is easy to see. There's just the right amount of words for frequent rereading should this become a favorite.
This book gave me a lot to think about when it comes to children and food, and I need to do some research on the best way to get children to understand that a constant diet of snacks isn't a great choice. Put Snack, Please on your menu of picture books along with Whittingham's Bunny Loves Beans, Mucha's Welcome to Our Table, Buzzeo's Eat Your Superpowers, and Alary's The Sun in My Tummy.
April 13, 2025
Gertie's love of snacks ruins her appetite for dinner.
This is picture book reflects the American cultural practice of pacifying children with prepackage snack foods. Gertie is magically cured by spending the afternoon with her grandmother at a community garden, which kindles a desire to eat whole foods that she helps cook. Quite unfortunately, the only way to stop children from loading up on snacks and then refusing to eat dinner is the limit the amount and availability of snacks.
This is picture book reflects the American cultural practice of pacifying children with prepackage snack foods. Gertie is magically cured by spending the afternoon with her grandmother at a community garden, which kindles a desire to eat whole foods that she helps cook. Quite unfortunately, the only way to stop children from loading up on snacks and then refusing to eat dinner is the limit the amount and availability of snacks.
October 25, 2024
The most relatable book I've ever read.
March 13, 2025
To the slugs on the final end pages... please know that I love you.
May 15, 2025
Cute picture book about the problem and solution for kiddos who just want to eat snacks and the fun way you get them to eat dinner
November 18, 2025
I give this story this rating because I like it but also because I eat lots of snacks like gertie. he he
February 15, 2026
extremely relatable
February 24, 2026
Very cute, sweet, book. This book would be great for younger elementary who may be in that age group of only wanting snacks. It teaches that you can’t just have snacks all the time
November 27, 2025
Importance des vrais repas, pas juste des cochonneries.
April 21, 2026
This is a good story to educate students on food consumption and children's health. I would have this book in my classroom library so students could choose if they wanted to read this book. I thought this book represented how children just like to snack when they are little.
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