Books about fruit and vegetables

This classic book from author and illustrator team Janet and Allan Ahlberg is a real favourite with families

Emily Gravett’s colourful yet sparse illustrations cleverly depict a bumbling bear interacting in many different and imaginative ways with the fruit mentioned in the title.

When Gary the gorilla runs out of bananas he is forced to go out and find more but although he sees bananas everywhere, he can’t eat a single one of them! Hilarious and packed with visual puns. 

Follow the cartoon-style adventures of two monkeys. One of them has a banana and the other one wants it – but what is the magic word?

Did you know when you go to sleep all the fruit in the bowl comes to life and has a fun-filled, night long party?

Colin is a carrot, and Lee is a pea. An amusing and deceptively simple look at friendship and difference, this is a lovely book for young readers.

A super-chilled cucumber hands out confidence tips to his foody friends, but when he starts to feel left out, he totally loses his cool. Exploring anxiety and jealousy, this laugh-out-loud story is a super fun way for children to think about emotions. 

Mr and Mrs Hargreaves’ new baby is the fussy kind and doesn’t seem to want to eat anything. Until he eats avocadoes – and gets bigger and stronger than anyone could have guessed. Avocado Baby is a total joy, full of surreal, off-kilter humour.

One little pea does NOT want to be eaten! Follow his adventures in this super-fun rhyming story.

Is Avocado a fruit or a vegetable? He sets off to find out, but Tomato shows him that it really doesn’t matter if he isn’t easy to categorise. A witty allegory about identity.

Oliver only wants to eat chips and pizza for dinner. But Daddy keeps cooking vegetables – yuk! A story about growing vegetables, eating healthily and being brave enough to try new things.

Animal friends chomp their way through a variety of different meals in this cheerful celebration of food. Bright, bold illustrations are full of humorous detail and the book is a delight to share with young children.

Charlie tricks his younger sister, Lola – an extremely fussy eater – into eating all her least favourite foods.

The latest book in the Supertato series brings another fast-paced and colourful story, full of exciting twists and turns. But as well as being an adventure story full of fun and laughter, it’s also a sweet tale about friends who always look out for each other.