Summary: Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of the food we eat.

Summary: A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch comprised of colorful fruits and vegetables.

Summary: Mr. Rabbit helps a little girl select red, yellow, green, and blue gifts for her mother.

Summary: Photographs of toys, foods and other common objects are grouped according to color.

Summary: This book is for anyone who ever wondered where bananas come from. It describes life on a banana plantation in Honduras and how the bananas arrive at a market in the United States for Margie to enjoy.

Summary: Celebrates the many different kinds of bread and how they may be enjoyed.

Summary: Written in Spanish, this tale tells of two children and a friend who make a giant sandwich.

Summary: A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many ways rice is prepared at the different households visited.

Summary: An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

Summary: Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie.

Summary: Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but everything changes when little Nino's Pizzeria becomes a fancier place.

Summary: A first book of Chanukah traditions, including the Menorah, the dreidel, delicious latkes, and much more.

Summary: A young boy goes with his best friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born.

Summary: A brief history of pizza as it is now prepared in America for beginning readers.

Summary: Big Anthony came to help Strega Nona with her magic, but he was never to touch her pasta pot!

Summary: A delicious story of how the sweet Italian bread in a flower-pot shape came to be called "panettone".

A collection of nursery rhymes, each in both Spanish and English, collected from the Spanish community in the Americas.

Summary: Embarrassed to introduce his friend to his old-fashioned Italian grandmother, a young boy gains new appreciation of her when he finds how well she and his friend get along.

Summary: A tale of what Catnina the Cat does when the family leaves for the day.

Summary: Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up.

Summary: Follows the progress of a hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and large quantity of food.

Summary: Mother Badger has given Frances an egg for breakfast and tells her there are many foods to try to eat. But Frances feels safest eating bread and jam. After many meals of bread and jam, Frances decides to try different foods.

Summary: Bidemi draws pictures and tells stories about cherries.

Summary: All twelve months of the year are nice for sipping chicken soup with rice as this favorite book in rhyme will attest to.

Summary: Children will relate to the story of Minnie the Monkey whose favorite food, spaghetti, becomes more important than anything else.

Summary: Too much ketchup? "Never," squealed the ten little pigs. But Mrs. Pig had other ideas.

Summary: Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers - until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Summary: "One hot summer in Itching Down, Four million wasps flew into town." a tall tale of how this problem was solved.

The tale of a gingerbread man who ran away and all the animals who tried to catch him.

Summary: While her third grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Holly has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.

Summary: Peter goes on an adventure in the forest where he is shrunk to the size of an apple. He gathers blueberries and cranberries with new found friends.

Summary: The tomatoes, carrots, spinach plants, and other vegetables in the garden prepare to go to bed, each in its own fashion.

Summary: Mother Badger has given Frances an egg for breakfast and tells her there are many foods to try to eat. But Frances feels safest eating bread and jam. After many meals of bread and jam, Frances decides to try different foods.

Summary: Baby Gemma refuses to eat, throwing her breakfast on the floor and squashing her grapes, until her brother gets an inspired idea.

Summary: A very picky eater, Gregory the goat, refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.

Summary: While her third grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Holly has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.

Summary: After Muskrat's family meticulously plants, waters, and harvests peas, Muskrat doesn't want any. The process of cultivating peas is described.

Summary: A short scientific explanation of our sense of taste.

Summary: A simple introduction to the sense of taste.

Summary: Mama Bear starts a campaign to convince her family that they are eating too much junk food.

Summary: Mama Bear decides that her family is watching too much TV and decides to turn off the TV for a week. The Bear family slowly discovers other fun things to do.

Summary: Enter the restaurant called the Edible Pyramid and learn how to eat healthy from the food groups.

Summary: After suffering from eating the wrong kinds of foods, Calico Cat discovers the benefits of a proper diet.

Summary: A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results.

Summary: Emily Pig is trying to lose weight. Eugene Turtle asks her to join him for a nice long stroll, but the walk soon proves to be a preamble to a peripatetic feast. A deliciously funny tale of temptation and good intentions.

Summary: Rhyming text discusses vitamins A to E and their importance to good nutrition.

Summary: An elephant eats too much salt and feels awful. Classroom activities and recipes are included.

Summary: A young girl who has had diabetes since she was two years old describes her adjustments.

Summary: An updated version of the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude.

Summary: An engaging description of how corn was found by Indian farmers thousands of years ago and how corn is grown today.

Summary: Retells the Indian legend in which the Great Spirit gave the world the cranberry to remind people of their great battle with the mastodons and woolly mammoths.

Summary: A brief history of pizza as it is now prepared in America for beginning readers.

Summary: This book is filled with popcorn facts and fantasy. Everyone learns a greater appreciation for popcorn.

Summary: Quetzalcoatl Tales are ancient legends of Mexico and Central America. The tale describes how corn or "maize" was the food that saved the people of Central America from going hungry.

Summary: A delicious story of how the sweet Italian bread in a flower-pot shape came to be called "panettone".

Summary: From alligator's apples to Zebra's zucchini, a multitude of alphabetical animals and food celebrate Thanksgiving with a grand feast.

Summary: Someone's been eating from A to Z. Rhyming verses introduce a letter of the alphabet and lead readers to the culprit.

Summary: Young readers are introduced to a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from A to Z through brilliant water color collages. A glossary at the end of the book offers useful and interesting information about each fruit and vegetable.

Summary: Depicts edible plants from apple to zucchini by means of wood engravings.

Summary: Rhyming verses and illustrations introduce the letter of the alphabet and describe how a garden is planned and planted, how things grow, and the joy a garden brings.

Summary: In an alliterative test, the amazing appetite of Andy leads him to meet Daisy the delivery girl with whom he forms a musical group.

Summary: Alpha and Betty have a potluck and all their friends (Acton to Zelda) bring appropriate alphabetical food (asparagus soup to zucchini casserole).

Summary: An alphabetical tour of gardening.

Summary: All twelve months of the year are nice for sipping chicken soup with rice as this favorite book in rhyme will attest to.

Summary: In romping rhythm, a bear discovers the joy of berries of all kinds. The illustrations are just as fun as the verse.

Summary: Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hopper goes on a great hunt for his new recipe.

Summary: A delicious introduction to fractions. Food is cut into halves, thirds, and fourths to illustrate how parts make a whole. Recipes are included.

Summary: Numbers from 1 to 10 are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

Summary: All twelve months of the year are nice for sipping chicken soup with rice as this favorite book in rhyme will attest to.

Summary: A wonderful book of poems about all sorts of foods that grow in Grandfather's garden.

Summary: This story describes how a farmer plants crops in the spring and nurtures them until harvest time in the fall. It also points out all of the different animals cared for and concludes with a family gathering enjoying the food they have grown.

Summary: A little boy plants a seed and his mother and father do not think it will grow. One day, something very special happens.

Summary: An introduction, in simple text and illustrations, to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the season.

Summary: Strict and proper Gramma, unhappy that her green beans won't grow, leaves for a vacation and has a surprise when she comes back.

Summary: It's a fresh presentation of the gardening cycle with the added attraction of an easy and tasty recipe for vegetable soup on the flyleaf. A book to help nourish healthy readers.

Summary: Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes fully ripe fruit.

Summary: This books teaches how mushrooms grow and reproduce from spores.

Summary: Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.

Summary: This book teaches the basics of botany to young children. All sorts of seeds are shown along with foods and other plants grown from seeds.

Summary: As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree.

Summary: This book is for anyone who ever wondered where bananas come from. It describes life on a banana plantation in Honduras and how the bananas arrive at a market in the United States for Margie to enjoy.

Summary: On a summer day in Maine, a little girl and a bear cub, wandering away from their blueberry picking mothers, each mistake the other's mother for its own.

Summary: A small boy helps his father shop and prepare a dinner of spaghetti for Mom.

Summary: Follows a hen's egg from the moment it is laid to the time the chick hatches. Also introduces other egg-laying animals such as birds, snails and snakes.

Summary: This book is a simple recollection of what the author's grandmother did when she wanted fish for supper.

Summary: In this unique introduction to fruits, young people can watch an apple seed sprout and grow into a tree, watch apples ripen and fall from the tree, and explore the inside of the seed and more.

"One hot summer in Itching Down, Four million wasps flew into town."...a tall tale of how this problem was solved.

Spanish version available.

Summary: A story about how cows make milk and how it is processed before being delivered to the stores.

Summary: A little old lady's attempts to have pancakes for breakfast are hindered by a scarcity of supplies and participation of her pets.

Summary: By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

Summary: Despite many difficulties, a farmer named Festus is determined to celebrate his cat's birthday by baking a pancake pie.

Summary: An illustrated play rhyme about how all the ingredients for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich are made.

Summary: By order of the Duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

Summary: A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve a field from developers.

Summary: Features environmental activities and projects in areas of water pollution, recycling, acid rain, and wildlife gardens.

Summary: Ms. Frizzle's class takes a trip through the body in a magic school bus. Along the way they learn how food is digested and other parts of the body.

Summary: An introduction to the human skeletal system, explaining how the 206 bones of the skeleton join together, how they grow, how they help make blood, what happens when they break, and how they mend.

Summary: This brightly illustrated book details what happens when we eat a hamburger and other foods.

Summary: Describes how different kinds of foods provide needed nutritional fuel for the body, and how the process of digestion works.

Summary: Explains the concept of a food chain and how plants, animals and humans are ecologically linked.

Summary: Join Smiles and his friends go on an exciting visit to the peanut butter pantry where they learn that eating breakfast can be fun.

Summary: A little mouse will do anything to hide his strawberry from the big hungry bear. A lesson in sharing.

Summary: A small boy helps his father shop and prepare a dinner of spaghetti for Mom.

Summary: A child and grandmother plant seeds and care for their garden all summer, then share the harvest.

Summary: Maggie plants a big potato which grows into a potato plant too big to pull without the help of everyone on the farm, including the dog, cat and mouse.

Summary: A clever lass, in need of a meal, shows some stingy villagers how to make soup starting with a magic stone.

Summary: An old man and his wife grow a turnip that becomes so large that they can't pull it out of the ground. By enlisting the help of their grandson and several animals, they are finally able to pull it out. 

A little boy plants a seed and his mother and father do not think it will grow. One day, something very special happens.

Summary: Strict and proper Gramma, unhappy that her green beans won't grow, leaves for a vacation and has a surprise when she comes back.

Summary: Big Anthony came to help Strega Nona with her magic, but he was never to touch her pasta pot!

Summary: Frank the bear and Ernest the elephant offer to work in a diner for three days. First they have to learn the language. "Burn one, take it through the garden and pin a rose on it" is a hamburger with lettuce and tomato, for instance.

Summary: A fun, both-sides-of-the-counter look at a busy day in a neighborhood diner.