Food and Nutrition
Sites for Kids
Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes. Rosalind Creasy.Learn about out of the ordinary fruits and vegetables.
Bread and Jam for Francis. Russel Hoben, Harper and Row, 1964.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Judi Barrett, Atheneum, 1978.Life is delicious in the town of Chew & Swallow where it rains soup and juice, and snows mashed potatoes.
Chicken Soup with Rice - A Book of Months. Maurice Sendak, Harper & Row, 1962
Come and Eat With Us, by Annie Kubler, Caroline Formby
Dining With Prunella, by Teddy Slater, Diane Dawson Hearn
D.W. the Picky Eater by Marc Tolon Brown. (Boston: Little,Brown & Co., 1995.) Arthur the aardvark's sister is a picky eater. The family leaves her at home when they go out to eat until D.W. decides she might be missing something good by being so picky. (Rdg level: ages 4-8)
Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan (Boston: Little, Brown &Co., 1998) A young Hawaiian girl tries to make dumplings for her family's New Year celebration. This story celebrates the joyful mix of food, customs and languages of many cultures. (Reading level:ages 4 to 8)
Eat Dinner, by Margery Facklam, Anita Riggio
Eat Up, Gemma, by Sarah Hayes, Jan Ormerod
The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day by Loreen Leedy (New York: Holiday House, 1994) At the Edible Pyramid Restaurant, guests learn about all the foods they can eat from USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. (Rdg level: ages 4 to 8)
Foods: Feasts, Cooks, and Kitchens by Richard Tames(New York: Franklin Watts. 1994) This history of food discusses the types of foods and cooking methods used by cultures from the hunters and gatherers of 18,000 B.C. to Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Middle Ages and all the way to futuristic farming. It's filled with interesting illustration and fascinating facts. (Rdg level: ages 9-12)
Harvest Year by Cris Peterson. (Homedale, PA: Boyd Mill Press,1996) This beautiful photographic essay pictures foods that are harvested across the United States. It covers everything from ripen pineapple in January to Louisiana shrimp in December.(Rdg level: ages 4 to 8)
Holidays of the World Cookbook for Students by Lois Sinaiko Webb (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1996) This book features a collection of 388 recipes from more than 136 countries. Also described are the local holidays, customs and foods that are part of the holiday traditions in each country. (Recommended for grades 4-12.)
How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin (NewYork: Simon & Schuster, 1992) This book tells the story of three children, each with an immigrant parent. For each family, the food they eat, the names of different dishes and their eating customs are discussed. The book includes three recipes -- one African, one Puerto Rican and one Taiwanese. (Rdg level: ages 4 to 8)
How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994) Since the supermarket is closed, the reader is led around the world -- to Italy,France, Sri Lanka, England, Jamaicaand Vermont -- to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. (Rdg level: ages 4 to 8)
The Hungry Little Boy, by Joan W. Blos, Dena SchutzerI
Leo the Lettuce Lion and His Vegetable Kingdom. Don Wolf, The Steinbeck Country General Store, Inc., 1978
Let's Grow a Garden. Fuji Kawo, Gyo. Grosset and Dunlop, New York, 1978. A group of young children plant seeds and grow fresh vegetables.
Little Brown Bear Does Not Want To Eat, by Claude Lebrun, Danielle Bour
Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears. Cynthia Rylant, Harcourt Brace. An old man and his cat are too creaky to climb ladders, but still find a solution to enjoy pear jelly
The Muffin Muncher. Cosgrove, S. Price Stern Publishing Co., California, 1975. A story about a dragon that loves munching muffins and how he comes to the villagers' rescue by helping them continue to make muffins
My First Kwanzaa Book by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate(New York: Scholastic, 1992) This picture book tells of family customs celebrated during Kwanzaa. (Rdg level: ages 4-8)
Never Take a Pig Out to Lunch and Other Poems Poems about the Fun
of Eating Selected and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott (New
York: Orchard Books, 1994) A collection of 50 poems and traditional
rhymes
about food and eating. (Reading level:ages 4 to 8)
Nibble, Nibble, Jenny Archer. Ellen Crawford, Little, Brown, and Company, 1993.Jenny Archer is excited about her chance to be in a television commercial.
Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast: Food Riddles for You to Guess by Argentina Palacios. (Austin,Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1992) A book of food riddles for young children. (Rdg level: ages 4 to 8)
Pizzas & Punk Potatoes. Arielle Rosin.
The Popcorn Book. de Paola, Tomie. Holiday House, New York, 1978. This book tells a story about the history and legend of popcorn
Stone Soup. Brown, Marcia. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1947. Three soldiers came marching into a French village. The peasants heard they were coming and hid all their food. The soldiers tricked the peasants into providing them with a feast by making a soup from stones.
Sweet Corn. James Stevenson, Greenwillow. Celebrate summer fun with twenty-eight short poems, brought to life by creative designs that stretch, twist, and accent the text.
Teeth. Baker, Susan. MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London,
England, 1983. This book focuses on a young child's teeth. In story form,
it shows the importance of brushing teeth, the proper foods to eat, and
visiting the dentist.
Today is Monday by Eric Carle (illustrator). (New York: Philomel Books, 1993.) Each day of the week brings a new food until Sunday when children around the world "come and eat it up." (Reading level:ages 4 to 8)
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto (New York: G.P. Putnam'sSons, 1993)
While helping make tamales for Christmas dinner, Maria tries on her mother's
ring. When she realizes the ring is missing, her cousins come to the
rescue. (Rdg level: ages 4 to 8) .
Last updated November 14, 2000
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