The Root Troops

'The Root Troops' book is based in a secret land of forgotten vegetables called Parsley Valley, ruled by Queen Corley Flower. The Queen plants the seeds and tends the vegetables until they can walk and talk. The vegetables hope to reach their paradise kingdom of Legume, which they enter through the secret doorway of children's mouths. Unfortunately most of the children would rather eat sweets, so many of the vegetables never get to Legume and instead are thrown away to rot. The children are being brainwashed by the evil Candy Cane, who encourages them to ignore the greens and go with sweets. To fight back, Queen Corley Flower pumps the nutrients from 1,000 vegetables into a brave team of vegetables. That was when the superhero vegetables were born and they called them – The Root Troops, their task, to vanquish the evil Candy Cane and his army.

'The Root Troops' book is based in a secret land of forgotten vegetables called Parsley Valley, ruled by Queen Corley Flower. The Queen plants the seeds and tends the vegetables until they can walk and talk. The vegetables hope to reach their paradise kingdom of Legume, which they enter through the secret doorway of children's mouths. Unfortunately most of the children would rather eat sweets, so many of the vegetables never get to Legume and instead are thrown away to rot. The children are being brainwashed by the evil Candy Cane, who encourages them to ignore the greens and go with sweets. To fight back, Queen Corley Flower pumps the nutrients from 1,000 vegetables into a brave team of vegetables. That was when the superhero vegetables were born and they called them – The Root Troops, their task, to vanquish the evil Candy Cane and his army.

My name is Chris Boyle and I was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1988. The reason my goal is to get children eating vegetables is because I spent 3 years of my spare time working with a children's pop band (popblast) designed to get children up and dancing. Every time I spoke to parents I found out that their one difficulty in life is getting their children to eat their greens. Some say I am a big kid. I have always been a big fan of super hero's, so I combined my love of super hero's with my goal of getting children to eat their vegetables and that's when I came up with The Root Troops. If parents could play along with the story during dinnertime it would make children want to eat their vegetables.