Vitamins, fibre and antioxidants are more likely to ensure a healthy, lively slim child than sugar and crisps.
" Yeah, she' s quite slim as well… You can tell she, she can fit into 5 to 6 year old skirts, so she' s quite a slim child… Oh yeah she burns it as quick as she eats it".
This slim children's book quotes the likes of Voltaire and Thomas à Kempis as it introduces young readers to the joys and rigors of the bookish life.
Stretched The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab has concerns that the material is overstretched, this being the first part in a trilogy based on what is, when it comes down to it, a fairly slim children's book: "For all the sound and fury, not a great deal actually happens".
I remember saying early in the meeting, "Now, I realise that what we have here is a very slim children's book, and that you will probably have to change and expand a great deal of it to turn it into a play.
It takes a shock – like seeing them next to slimmer children – to be brought up short and be aware of an issue.
Peter Jackson, the man who brought Lord Of The Rings to the big screen to eardrum-shattering acclaim 10 years ago, is now taking just the same approach to Tolkien's much slighter, slimmer children's book The Hobbit.
Slim's children were already in positions of authority in the family empire, but since his heart operation he has relinquished control over the daily operation of his many enterprises.
The chances for reintegration after such experiences are slim, pushing children ever deeper into poverty and exclusion.
How would any parent expect to have a child slim, knowledgeable about diets and, above all healthy, after such a dish ruins the palates of the young forever?
A staff of 64, with 32 administrators, was trimmed by almost half and now has a slim majority of child care workers.
