Zola and the Lunchroom Roar
The lunchroom is loud — and it smells like everything at once.
Bananas and tuna and someone's hot stew. Trays that go CLACK. Benches that SQUEAL. Zola's tummy ties up in a knot and she can't eat much at all.
So Zola brings a Safe-Foods Plate — the crackers she likes, the apples she knows. They're her anchors when the lunchroom feels too wide. Then lunchboxes start disappearing, and while the whole class argues about who took them, Zola follows one thin thread of smell out the back door. Afterwards, with her safe foods beside her, she tries one small bite of something new. Because brave can be tiny.
This one's for the child who…
- gags at smells other people don't even notice
- finds the school cafeteria the hardest part of the day
- has a small list of safe foods and no interest in leaving it
Ages 3–7 · 33 pages · full colour
Soft watercolour illustrations, a warm rhyming story, and one repeatable coping tool — plus five “Draw It Yourself” activity pages in the paperback.
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