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Gourmet Rainbow Board Book by Chunky Deli, featuring colorful gourmet food illustrations for toddlers.
Open Gourmet Rainbow board book showing pink prosciutto spread with colorful artwork by Chunky Deli.
Gourmet Rainbow board book open to a purple fig illustration with vibrant artwork by Chunky Deli.
Gourmet Rainbow board book page with green olives, geometric artwork, and rhymes by Chunky Deli.
"Gourmet Rainbow" board book displayed at an angle among gourmet foods such as olives, oranges, chocolate, and popcorn on a purple background. Chunky Deli product image.
6-inch square Gourmet Rainbow green board book by Caitlin Steuer & Christina Sicoli, Chunky Deli.
A hand holds up "Gourmet Rainbow," a square, green children's book. Measuring 6 inches.
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Gourmet Rainbow Board Book

$12.99

Ready to move beyond plain-vanilla baby books? The Gourmet Rainbow Board Book is a vibrant, witty, and charming tour of the beautiful spectrum of fine foods, perfect for the baby of any food lover, host, or curious parent. This chunky deli book introduces infants and toddlers to a delightful collection of gourmet foods, from Red Tomatoes and Yellow Lemon to Blue Caviar and Pink Prosciutto. It's a colorful, rhyming journey designed to spark a love for adventurous eating and the rainbow of nature's poetry, making it a must-have board book for toddlers and babies alike.

Why You'll Love This Gourmet Baby Book

  • A CULINARY ADVENTURE IN COLOR: This food board book is a unique introduction to colors, using sophisticated and unexpected examples like Black Truffles and White Popcorn. Each page is a feast for the eyes, pairing a bold color with a single, high-quality illustration of a fine food, moving beyond the usual primary color lessons. It's a clever way to introduce both the spectrum of the rainbow and the world of gourmet food in one engaging, educational gift for a one-year-old.

  • MID-CENTURY MODERN FLAIR: Forget overly cartoonish imagery; this chunky deli book features captivating, mid-century modern illustrations and bold, easy-to-read sight words that appeal to a grown-up design sensibility. The high-contrast, artistic style is perfect for developing young eyes, making it an excellent addition to a Montessori baby book collection. This isn't just a book for babies; it’s a stylish piece of nursery decor that parents will be proud to display.

  • SPARKING FUN FOOD CONVERSATIONS The Gourmet Rainbow Board Book encourages playful exploration and curiosity, perfect for baby-led weaning or simply sharing a love of diverse tastes. Each spread introduces a different food type, from cured meats and canned goods to fruit and vegetables. This unique approach to a food baby book provides an opportunity for new parents, caregivers, and toddler teachers to engage children in conversations about food and color, building togetherness through shared discovery.

  • DURABLE DESIGN FOR LITTLE FOODIES Our chunky deli books are built to last through endless reads, curious chews, and enthusiastic handling from your infant or toddler. The thick, durable pages are designed specifically to withstand the demands of little hands, ensuring this becomes a long-lasting favorite in their library. This sturdy board book about colors and food is an essential addition to any new parent's collection of early development and sensory toys resources.

The Perfect Choice For...

This book is the ultimate personality-driven gifting choice. It's a standout baby shower gift, first birthday gift, or a surprise for new parents who are self-proclaimed foodies, chefs, or design enthusiasts. It's a thoughtful present that acknowledges the parents' love for fine foods while cultivating curiosity in their little one. Add it to a curated basket of baby essentials and toddler learning toys for a truly unique and memorable package.

This Chunky Deli Book Will Help You Discover:

  • 10 Gourmet Foods: Featuring everything from a savory cured meat (Pink Prosciutto) to a sweet treat (Brown Chocolate).

  • The Full Spectrum: A complete introduction to the rainbow using unique and surprising examples.

  • Witty Rhyming Text: Fun, lighthearted poems perfect for toddlers and great for speech therapy materials.

  • High-Contrast Art: Bold, colorful illustrations that are visually stimulating for babies and stylish for parents.

  • Durable Construction: A baby board book designed with thick pages to last from infancy through the toddler years.

Go ahead, skip the sheep and get straight to the caviar. Inspire your little one’s inner foodie with this charming gourmet rainbow board book!

Gourmet Rainbow
Publication Date: October 2023
ISBN: 979-8988789109
Age: 0-4 years old
Size: 6 x 6 inches
Length: 20 pages

Caitlin Steuer - Author
Christina Krol (Sicoli) - Author / Illustrator

Playful Designs | A bookshelf favorite! Each book has vibrant, colorful illustrations, making storytime captivating, and sparking conversation with every page. 

Smart Fun | Beyond ABCs! Each book offers unique, engaging educational value. With clever writing to introduce new vocabulary and concepts, kids and grown-ups are sure to discover and learn together.

Perfect Gift | A creative and thoughtful gift for the kids in your life. Our books help gifters share their passions in a unique and kid-friendly way. Encouraging long lasting connections and memories to come.


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Gourmet Rainbow Board Book

$12.99

This colorful board book teaches colors through gourmet foods with poems. Customers praised 'thick pages,' 'bright colors,' and durability. Perfect gift for foodie families. Some noted advanced vocabulary (escargot, charcuterie) for young toddlers. Multiple reports of books arriving warped/bent. One customer received cards instead of a bound book. Excellent packaging and fast shipping.

  • 5 stars: 22 (71%)
  • 4 stars: 7 (23%)
  • 3 stars: 2 (6%)
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KittyKat
Colorful board book for the foodie-to-be

The gbabies love to eat and cook and to read books. This is a great board book, fairly durable, for learning about colors, foods, and poetry. Some of the foods are less likely to be in the American toddler's diet, but you never know. Ours have had truffles and olives, for instance, and now they know about caviar and escargot as well. We are creating gourmet kids!

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Alex
Perfect for my 1 year old toddler

I have been reading this book to my 1 year old toddler and she loves it. This book has thick pages which makes it easy for my toddler to turn. The book as very bright colors and great pictures. I love how this book uses foods to explain colors. The book as great descriptions of the colors and foods and each on of the rhyme.

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K. M.
Cute book but came warped

This is a cute book that matches gourmet food to the rainbow. Each page has a different food and a nice little rhyme to go with it. The pictures are simple, but eye catching, especially for a baby. My only complaint is the book came warped and does not close or lay flat.

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Denise

First impressions matter! The packaging and care and detail made a huge impact. Then the product itself was fabulous.

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J E.
Foodie

This book is adorable!! Especially if you are a foodie

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Joyce

My friend's kids really enjoyed the book

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Emily

I've ordered several books from this shop and my nieces love them!

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josephi2

Fun books for foodie families to share with kids!

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Decoro
Great Gift!

This is a great gift for baby showers or 1st birthdays. I love how each color corresponds to a food and they can learn what each of the foods are at a very young age. A great way to expand vocabulary and possibly to a way to introduce a new food. I don't know if the book was intended to lay flat but mine did not arrive like that but it does make it easier for kids to turn the page.

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Meagan
Well-made and super cute for toddlers!

I'm not a full-on foodie, but I like to expose my kids to different things and like many toddler parents, it's always nice to put a new book into the rotation of tried and true favorites. It arrived quickly and I was really impressed with the quality of the book itself! It's a great size for small kids with nice thick pages and soothing colors. I would imagine that the average kid is not going to eat all of the foods mentioned in this book, but the colors are fun and not so punchy that they wouldn't fit the trendy baby aesthetics at the moment. As you can see in the product description, there are some foods that might not fit well in a vegan or vegetarian household, but we are neither so it's not a problem. This would be a perfect baby shower gift for the pregnant foodie in your life!

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rhianeb

Love this book! It's colourful, well written, and arrived safely (very well packaged!)

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Irene R.
Simple board book, doesn't lay flat

Basic board book apparently made for budding young foodies. Each page contains a simple, digital illustration of a gourmet food item accompanied by a short poem about said food item. The illustrations employee bright colors and a simple, stark style that very young children will enjoy.The vocabulary is too advanced for young readers ("charcuterie", "escargot"), and the poetry is sometimes a chore to read aloud. Roughly half the poems have no regard for meter or are built around an unnatural forced rhyme. Figs apparently "make you toot" because "toot" rhymes with "fruit", and escargot is inexplicably a source of "great debate" to force a rhyme with "plate". This is about par for the course for board books these days, but it seems that another brainstorming session or two could have come up with something better. Or maybe I'm just old and jaded and can't believe that everyone's not Dr. Seuss.The book I received is warped and won't lay flat, and it seems irreparable in this regard. I'm not sure if this is a manufacturing defect or if it was deformed in shipping, but even with a dictionary on top of it it's not returning to its proper shape.But overall this is a pretty cute board book. Kids will enjoy it but it's really more for the parents. A perfect gift for your fancy fine dining friends who are just now encountering the messy realities of parenthood.

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Patricia
Misleading

This is listed as a board book.. so I was disappointed when it arrived and it was just a bunch of cards in a little box. It had a lot of potential because I really liked the concept and illustrations. However, it's just really inconvenient to have to keep all the cards together and try not to lose one in a house with two little ones (under two). Would really prefer this in book form.

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Angela T.
fun fancy food

This book is great for the foodie or chef family. The foods introduced are gourmet and unusual coordinated with rainbow colors. It was fun to answer questions my kids had about the new foods and expand their view a bit. The pages and thick and sturdy and the pictures are bright and cute.

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Robert K.S.
Nice Hardboard Book to teach colors, but a little too advanced with words not for 0-2.

My 18 month old granddaughter loves it when I read her books. This one is a sturdy little book that helps her learn her colors and also start to recognize different food types than are not in some other books like lemon and popcorn. This, however, is an issue, too, as the book says 0-4 years and I'd say it's more like 4-6 because reading words like Charcuterie and Fungi when describing escargot, prosciutto, and caviar have no meaning to younger learners, so I just made my own up. She tried to say lemon and popcorn, which she may run into as a child, so these were worthy; however, just 3 stars as it seems to have been mis-aged, in my opinion and a little too 'gourmet' for the ages listed. JMHO.

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sanoe.net
Simple with good food ideas

Whether a child or a curious adult who just wants a simple book on colorful and healthy foods, " BlueMilk Rainbow Gourmet Board Book Poems About Color and Food Facts for Early Reader Baby 0-12M and Toddler Learning Resource 1-4 Years Preschool Classroom Teacher Must Have" is a cute and surprisingly useful book to have on hand. It has colorful illustrations and a memorable and fun poem to go with each food. As a curious adult, this little book provided some ideas on foods to try.

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DJ
Super cute

The perfect gift for parents who love foods. A clever and unique take on the typical board book.

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Thisisjusttheprologue_
Sweet baby book

This baby book is cute and different. I love the different foods that are mentioned in here, like escargot, and how they're not all normally popular foods that baby or a young child may hear about. It's a really nice little board book and would make a nice gift. The bright colors make the book eye grabbing, and that they go through all of the colors of the rainbow makes the book even more fun.

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Sig
Book won't stay closed

It'll be a while before this 6 month old actually learns these words, but at least the sentences are pretty simple. Kind of on the fence about calling escargot orange, but whatever.The book has nice big but simple drawings in thick cardboard pages, so it seems durable and good for little kids. But I think that construction is causing some problem because the book doesn't stay closed. Maybe a humidity problem? I'm not sure.

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Erin S.
Bright, beautiful art

I thought this was a great alternative to your typical food rainbow board book, with unique foods that most toddlers aren't often exposed to. The artwork is colorful and eye-catching, and the poems are good too. This would make a cute gift for a kiddo with foodie parents.

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Floriginian
Cute and stimulating for toddler

This little board book about food and color is beautifully printed bright colors and also has different textures to feel and talk about. We are saving it to read to our 2-year-old, but we are sure she's going to love this book.On a side note, the meat part is tricky -- we have vegetarians/vegans in the family. If your family is vegan, you may want to avoid this book because it does address meat as food.Otherwise, and overall, it's a beautiful little book!

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Jamison
Great book, arrived damaged

This is a wonderful book for children. The picture are great. It is a thick cardboard book but it did arrive pretty severely bent. Still usable though.

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J
Cute Foodie Board Book

This board book is cute and fun for parents who are foodies as it teaches kids about foods as well as colors. The art was cute, poems were good for younger readers and the board quality is good.For a short little board book it is cute and we were very happy with it.

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Sarah T.
Great book

This book is perfect for my 1 year old. The colors are a great way for him to learn and he loves turning the thick pages! Really fun book for little ones!

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Stephanie

I love this shop! I've given the gourmet book to a few of my foodie friends as a baby gift and they've loved it. They always ship quickly too. And this past order I requested something specific and they were kind enough to oblige - thank you!

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Kathleen

These books are great! The illustrations are wonderful!

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Shauna

First book arrived bent but I contacted them and received an immediate response saying they would send a new one. The book is great, and I would recommend purchasing from them in the future!

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Kailey

Fast shipping and perfect quality!! Thank you!