早餐，你喜欢吃什么
What Do You Like for Breakfast
Author | 文字作者
Xiuhua Yin (殷秀华)
Illustrator | 图画作者
Xiang Zhou (周翔)
Nanjing Normal University Press (南京师范大学出版社)
2022
Description | 简介
早餐，你喜欢吃什么？喜欢吃鱼的可能是小猫，喜欢吃骨头的可能是小狗，喜欢吃胡萝卜的可能是小兔子……不同的动物有不同的食物喜好。通过一连串有趣的猜谜，孩子认识了各种动物和食物。最后，喜欢吃面包、鸡蛋和牛奶的，又会是谁呢？
What do you like for breakfast? If you love fish, you might be a cat. If you like bones, perhaps you're a dog. If carrots are your favorite, you could be a rabbit! Through a series of playful food riddles, young readers discover different animals and what they like to eat. But who enjoys bread, eggs, and milk for breakfast?
Why We Recommend It
一本将动物认知、食物启蒙和语言发展巧妙结合的低幼互动绘本。作者采用简单而富有节奏的“如果……那么……”句式，让孩子根据食物猜测动物，在不断预测和揭晓答案的过程中培养观察力、联想能力与初步逻辑思维。周翔富有童趣的拼贴风格插画，画面简洁鲜明，适合低龄儿童观察和辨认。故事从动物们的食物喜好自然过渡到孩子自己的早餐，让阅读与日常生活产生联系，也为亲子讨论饮食习惯提供了轻松的切入点。重复性强、参与门槛低，尤其适合语言发展初期的幼儿及互动故事会。
A delightful interactive picture book that introduces young children to animals, foods, and early reasoning through playful guessing games. Its rhythmic, repetitive “If you like… then you might be…” structure encourages toddlers to predict answers, recognize patterns, and practice new vocabulary. Xiang Zhou's charming collage-style illustrations offer clear visual clues that make the story accessible even to very young readers. By connecting animal food preferences with a child's own breakfast, the book creates a natural bridge between early science concepts and everyday routines. Its simple language and engaging question-and-answer format make it particularly effective for bilingual read-alouds and early language development.
Reading & Activity Ideas
Guess the Animal: Show a food picture and ask children which animal might enjoy it before revealing the answer. Food & Animal Matching: Match picture cards of animals with foods featured in the story. Breakfast Sharing: Invite children to name or draw their favorite breakfast foods and discover similarities and differences. Animal Movements: Act out the animals as each answer is revealed. Food Exploration: Sort familiar foods into categories such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins. Bilingual Storytime: Practice the repeated sentence pattern “If you like ___, you might be a ___!” alongside the Chinese “如果你喜欢吃……那么你可能是……”.