Hungry for more? The books below provide additional, easy-to-read information about nutrition, meal preparation and helping your kids, and your whole family, to eat right.



Food and Nutrition for Every Kid | Janice VanCleave | Age: 8-12 yrs.
How does milk help me grow? Where do vitamins come from? From the Science for Every Kid series, these experiments teach kids all about food and nutrition.

Gobble up Math | Sue Mograd & Kelly Kennedy | Age: 5-9 yrs.
Kids will have fun learning math concepts while using nutritious food. Activities incorporate the Food Guide Pyramid, patterns, geometry, measurement, fractions, estimations, and more. A delicious way to learn about math and nutrition.

Let's Grow It! | Brenda Walpole | Age: 9-12 yrs.
Grow giant pumpkins, prickly cacti and brightly colored sunflowers. Produce delicious salad plates and learn how to create new plants from cuttings. Packed with great ideas and projects; this book also includes special tools and equipment to get you started right away.

Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking | Sharon McGinley-Nally | Age: 5-8 yrs.
This book takes a look at the concepts of measurement, featuring a family of pigs in the mood for cooking. Also includes a recipe for vegetarian chili and a page of measurement facts.

Ready, Set, Grow! A Kid's Guide to Gardening | Rebecca Hershey | Age: 5-11 yrs.
From plant tips, garden riddles, crafts from the garden, a personal garden journal, and garden puzzles and activities, there's something for everyone. Read, enjoy and happy gardening!

The Science Chef: 100 Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids | Joan D���Amico and Karen Eich Drummond | Age: 9-12 yrs.
This book examines the science of food, while instructing children on the science behind various cooking reactions. Answers such questions as "How Does Bread Rise?" and "Why Does Popcorn Pop?" Includes over 100 simple, quick recipes that can be made with easy-to-obtain ingredients and standard kitchen equipment.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A narrative about a hungry caterpillar that eats his way from one food to the next growing up to be a beautiful butterfly.



Bread, Bread, Bread | Ann Morris | Age: 5-8 yrs.
Celebrates the many different kinds of bread and how it may be enjoyed all over the world.

Bread Around The World | Jo Ellen Moore, Gary Shipman | Age: Grades 1-3
Discover the types of bread produced by people all over the world. Curriculum units include cooking demonstrations, field trips, science, math and writing experiences.

Bread is For Eating | Davis Gershator | Age: Preschool
Read this book to celebrate the importance of bread. The reader is taken on a journey that follows the making of bread, from the seed planted in the soil to the baker's kneading of the dough. Music is included.

Do Carrots Make You See Better? | Julie Appleton | Age: 4-8 yrs.
This book will help children discover that food is fun and interesting. Simple nutrition lessons are taught through games, stories, science activities, and more.

Eating | Gwenyth Swain | Age: 3-8 yrs.
Children throughout the world have favorite foods, and this book will describe what kinds of foods people enjoy in different places.

From Farm to Table | Davis Buckwoldt | Age: 6-8 yrs.
Explore the processes by which food is produced on various kinds of farms and transported to local markets.

From Seed to Pumpkin | Jan Lottke | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Colorful, imaginative book from the How Things Grow series for early readers.

From Wheat to Pasta | Robert Egan | Age: 8-12 yrs.
Clear and detailed photographs illustrate the process of harvesting wheat and making it into pasta. Each step is clarified by the fun and lively text.

Harvest Year | Cris Peterson | Age: 4-8 yrs.
This photographic essay pictures foods that are harvested across the United States. It covers everything from ripe Hawaiian pineapple in January to Louisiana shrimp in December.

How do Apples Grow? | Betsy Maestro | Age: 5-9 yrs.
Have you ever eaten part of a flower? You have if you have eaten an apple. Find out how an apple grows from a bud to a flower to a piece of fruit.

How My Family Lives in America | Susan Kuklin | Age: 5-7 yrs.
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.

The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body | Joanna Cole | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Part of The Magic School Bus series. Details the process of digestion through a journey inside the body.

My First Kwanzaa Book | Deborah M. Newton Chocolate | Age: 4-8 yrs.
This picture book tells the story of family customs celebrated during Kwanzaa and why food is such an important part of this celebration.

The Surprise Garden | Zoe Hall | Age: 5-9 yrs.
The Surprise Garden introduces young readers to the excitement of watching plants grow. Best of all, each seed is an engaging mystery that will encourage children to grow surprise gardens of their own.

The Tortilla Factory | Gary Paulsen | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Explains how a corn seed becomes a tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks to deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds.

What Food is This? | Rosemarie Hausherr | Age: 5-9 yrs.
Discusses in question-and-answer format eighteen different foods representing the four food groups. Provides additional information for kids on nutrition, healthy eating habits, and meal preparation. Questions are printed beneath the picture, such as "What food comes from grass that an animal has eaten?" or "What food grows without seeing the sun?" An appealing book.



Alphabet Soup | Kate Banks | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A boy's ability to spell words with his alphabet soup comes in handy during the magical journey he takes in his mind with a friendly bear. The letters he pulls out of his soup form words that come alive.

Apple Farmer Annie | Monica Wellington | Age: 3-5 yrs.
Annie the Apple Farmer saves her most beautiful apples to sell fresh at the farmer's market in the city. She picks plenty of sweet, crunchy apples and makes applesauce, apple cider, and baked apple treats.

The Apple Pie Tree | Zac Hall | Age: 3-8 yrs.
Colorful illustrations follow each season as an apple tree grows leaves, fragrant blossoms, and tiny green apples. Soon the fruit is big, red, and ready to be picked. It's time to make an apple pie! Includes an apple pie recipe on the last page.

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food | Stan and Jan Berenstain | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Improving health and fitness by eating nutritious meals and snacks and increasing physical activity is the central theme of this colorfully illustrated children's book about the Berenstain Bear family.

The Big Hungry Bear | Don and Audrey Woods | Age: 2-4 yrs.
Little Mouse will do anything to save his strawberry from the big hungry bear.

Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey | Age: Preschool
In this children's book Sal and Little Bear get separated from their mothers while they are finding blueberries. Each of them thinks she sees or hears her mother, but they are mistaken and are heading towards the wrong mother. Before each is reunited with her respective mother, each youngster meets a family of birds. The story notes the different purposes of the human family and the bear family.

Bread and Jam for Francis | Russel Hoben | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A perfect antidote for children who make limited food choices. Francis' food jag is short-lived once her parents begin serving her bread and jam for every meal and snack. In the end she agrees with her friend Albert who declares, " I think it's nice that there are different kinds of lunches and breakfasts and dinners and snacks. I think eating is nice."

The Carrot Seed | Ruth Krauss | Age: 3-6 yrs.
A classic story about a little boy who plants a carrot seed that becomes a carrot.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Abstract: Life is delicious in the town of Chew & Swallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers.

Dumpling Soup | Jama Kim Rattigan | Age: 4-8 yrs.
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.

D.W. the Picky Eater | Marc Tolon Brown | Age: 4-8 yrs.
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.

Growing Vegetable Soup | Lois Ehlert | Age: 4-8 yrs.
This colorful juvenile work relates the story of a father and child who plant a vegetable garden and harvest it in order to make vegetable soup. Recipes for vegetable soup are included.

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World | Marjorie Priceman | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making apple pie. The recipe is included.

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato | Lauren Child | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Sometimes Charlie has to give his little sister her dinner and this is difficult because Lola is a very fussy eater. Charlie tries something new, which shows that children's tastes are often based on preconception rather than on taste buds.

Little Whistle's Dinner Party | Cynthia Rylant | Age: 3-7 yrs.
Little Whistle wakes up one night feeling quite hungry, so he invites all of his Toytown friends to a special dinner party.

Never Take a Pig Out to Lunch and Other Poems | Nadine Bernard Westcott | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A collection of 50 poems and traditional rhymes about food and eating.

Oliver's Fruit Salad | Vivian French | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Oliver's wonderful grandfather grows fruit tastier than anything from a can or bottle - or so Oliver tells his mother. But it doesn't mean Oliver will eat any of this fruit. His clever grandparents get Oliver to try fruit salad - and he loves it! Bright, bold illustrations make this funny book a feast for the eyes.

Oliver's Milk Shake | Vivian French | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Oliver is a picky eater but his Aunt Jen is determined to change his ways. Oliver learns to like milk through a visit to the farm and Aunt Jen's yummy milk shakes. This story is full of colorful pictures.

Oliver's Vegetables | Vivian French | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Oliver visits his grandparents and hopes to find the potatoes so he can have the only vegetable he likes - french fries. But first he must find the potatoes in the garden, and in the process he tries and likes all the vegetables!

Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast: Food Riddles for You to Guess Argentina Palacios | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A book of food riddles for young children.

Pete's a Pizza | William Steig | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Pete is sad - he can't go out to play with his friends because it is raining. His Dad thinks Pete will cheer up if he is made into a pizza! Easy-to-read and very entertaining.

Scrambled Egg Super! | Dr. Seuss | Age: 3-7 yrs.
Peter T. Hooper narrates his search for a variety of eggs from different birds to cook his special recipe for scrambled eggs. He hunts for different kinds of eggs because eggs from hens always taste the same. After his search, he describes his recipe for his special scrambled eggs.

Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Three hungry soldiers come to town to ask for something to eat, and instead, teach the village people how to make soup out of stones. A lesson in generosity is taught in the midst of a grand feast.

Sweet Dream Pie | Audrey Woods | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Imagine a pie made of chocolate, jelly beans, licorice sticks, cookies, gumdrops, butterscotch, and every sweet thing you love. Don't eat too much though, or you're sure to get a stomachache. The underlying lesson: eat sweets in moderation.

Sweet Potato Pie | Anne F. Rockwell | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A lighthearted and easy-to-read rhyming story follows a family who meets around the table where Grandma has presented her famous baked sweet potato pie.

This is the Bread I Baked for Ned | Crescent Dragonwagon and Isadore Selzer Age: 4-8 yrs.
Glenda bakes bread for Ned. When Ned gets home, he brings many friends. They eat, enjoying the bread with their meal. This is a fun, rhyming story with colorful illustrations.

Today is Monday | Eric Carle | Age: 4-8 yrs.
Each day of the week brings a new food. When Sunday arrives, children from around the world gather to share their favorite foods.

Too Many Tamales | Gary Soto | Age: 4-8 yrs.
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.

Tops and Bottoms | Janet Stevens | Age: 4-8 yrs.
A story about a lazy bear and his rabbit friend who grows different crops on the bear's land. Before each crop grows, the bear and the rabbit agree on who will get the tops and who will get the bottoms. Each time, the hare grows a crop, which makes him the "winner" in the deal.