BooK Review & #Giveaway- Joosh's Juice Bar - The Blue Banana Berry Adventure

When Joosh’s Juice Bar runs out of strawberries, the youngsters are asked to go on a “strawberry run”. Mo and Coco, along with rainforest friends Randy (a mischievous monkey) and Kwamee (a wise green lizard), travel through the Tropland Rainforest and stumble upon a unique glowing berry in Don Ribbit’s forbidden Swampland. Mo and Randy pick the berries, eat them and bring them back to Joosh’s Juice Bar. What seemed like a great idea at first turns sour as Joosh and his wife Holly return home to the juice bar and find the boys making a new juice with the berries! To their surprise, Randy and Mo, along with the animals that also drank their new blue juice, are glowing blue from head to toe! The Joosh Man takes Coco and the boys to seek aid from Doctor Boo Boo (a toucan bird).Will they find a way to wash the blue glow away? Will they get back home safely before the impending rain storm?  Entertaining characters with wonderful adventures. Each page filled with colorful art and a story that highlights important eating habits for children of all ages. The Blue Banana Berry Adventure is the first book in the series and written entirely in rhyme, for you and your kids to enjoy a hundred times!





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My Thoughts

Joosh's Juice Bar is about a family who runs a little juice stand in the middle of the rain forest. Joosh is the owner and he runs it along with his wife Holly and their two kids, Mo and Coco, and their pet monkey Randy. In this adventure, they run out of strawberries and  head out into the woods to gather more. Instead they find some strange glowing blue berries. They think they taste great, so they take them home. Soon Mo, Randy and all the animals they sold juice to are glowing blue like the berries, and have to go to the doctor for a cure.

This is a cute story, but it's hard to put a good age range on it. It's a little long for my preschool kids but not quite advanced enough for my older kids. It would probably be best for around ages six to eight. I also wish they had either stuck with rhyming throughout or not at all, because going back and forth was a bit jarring. Despite this, I did enjoy the underlying message of avoiding the chemicals often used in our food these days. The illustrations are also beautifully done. Each page is intricately detailed, right down to the beads in their hair and their jewelry. The artwork alone makes it worth reading.


The Giveaway

One lucky winner is going to receive a copy of Joosh's Juice Bar. To enter just fill out the Giveaway Tools form below Open to the US only. This giveaway will end on 8/9/14 at 12:01 am EST. The winner will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to reply. Thanks again to the author  for offering this fantastic prize.

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