SuitabookZeki Goes to the Market
Anna McQuinn
- Reading
- Read it as a noticing book: pause at each stall, name colours and textures, and invite the child to choose a favourite. If practical, offer familiar sensory objects without expecting tasting or touching.
- Themes
- Sensory curiosity: Zeki encounters a wide range of foods, aromas, textures and colourful market goods while moving between stalls. The story presents attentive sensory exploration as the central pleasure of the outing.
- Family and community: Zeki visits the Saturday market with Mum, meeting named sellers and eventually travelling home with her after the shopping. The outing is framed positively as shared family time within a lively, socially varied community setting.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes food tasting, hot chilli chocolate, spices, skin butter and many products to look at or take home. A child may want to discuss which sensations sound appealing, unfamiliar or uncomfortable.