I???m really pleased that my wife, Penny, who did so much to make my first book a success, has agreed to co-author these children???s books with me. My wife and I have had a lot of fun (mostly) finalising the first book in our Food Loving Kids series. It has just gone off to the printer in the UK for a pre-Christmas release over there. It will be out in Australia in March 2010 (to find out the latest on this just subscibe to this site as I will be posting updates as we get closer to the release date.)

The first book, Taste with your face: Adventures in healthy eating, is all about teaching children to savour their food. Tasting with your face, rather than just your mouth, is about using your eyes and nose as well. In this way we come fully into the now to get maximum tasting pleasure ??? remember, we eat more because we taste less. By tasting more, it becomes so much easier to eat less.

I say ???mostly??? had a lot of fun, because when I???m writing I normally only have myself to argue with. I could ask an opinion of someone and if I didn???t like what I heard, I could go away and do it my way. Not so now ???

Today, driving to work, I had this troubling insight come to me. ??? I???ve realised Penny has this extremely annoying habit – she significantly improves any work I do!