Animal Action ABC
Karen Pandell, Art Wolfe (Photographer), Abriel Jecan,
Nancy Sheehan (Photographer)
This captivating book teaches action words and gets children up and moving, imitating animals.

The Apple Pie Tree
Zoe Hall
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 Cook-It! Breakfast for Mama
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Brother, Sister and Papa Bear plan and prepare a surprise "breakfast in bed" for Mama Bear.

Biggest Sandwich Ever
Rita G. Gelman
Beautifully illustrated, this enjoyable book is treasured by many for its surprise ending.

Bread Around The World
Evan-Moore Series
Discover the types of bread produced by the people all over the world.

Bread, Bread, Bread (Around the World Series)
Ann Morris, Ken Heyman (Illustrator)
What kind of bread do you eat? All over the world, someone is eating some type of bread: a bagel, a tortilla, a baguette.

Bread is for Eating
David Gershator, Phillis Gershator, Emma Shaw-Smith (Illustrator)
The English text is punctuated with a rhythmical Spanish refrain of a song that celebrates 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 included.

A Busy Day at Mr. Kang's Grocery Store
Alice K. Flanagan
This is a story about Mr. Kang, a Korean-American, and his life as a grocery store owner.

Chop, Simmer, Season
Alexa Brandenberg
This book shows two chefs preparing and serving a meal for a small restaurant.

Clams All Year
Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Grandpa and his eight grandchildren delight in finding enough clams to last all year: stuffed clams, spaghetti with clam sauce, clam chowder, etc.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett, Judith Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illustrator)
In Chewandswallow, food drops like rain from the sky at appropriate times of day. But, a change in weather causes massive problems.

Cook-a-Doodle-Doo
Janet Stevens (Illustrator), Susan Stevens Crummel
Big Brown Rooster and friends are cooking strawberry shortcake in this beautifully illustrated picture book.

Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
Aliki
This book tells how corn was found by Native American farmers long ago, and how corn is grown and used today.

Cow
Jules Older, Lyn Severance (Illustrator)
Brightly and beautifully illustrated, this humorous book answers any questions you've ever had about cows!

Cranberry Thanksgiving
Wende Devlin, Harry Devlin
Maggie and her grandmother each invite a guest for Thanksgiving dinner, which features Grandmother's own cranberry bread. But, someone stole the secret recipe!

Dinosaurs Alive and Well: A Guide to Good Health
Laurie Krasny and Marc Brown
This unique guide offers good advice and lively illustrations.

Dumpling Soup
Jama Kim Rattigan, Lillian Hsu-Flanders (Illustrator)
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
Arthur'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.

Eat Your Peas
Kes Gray, Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)
A fun book about Daisy (who doesn't like peas) and her long-suffering mother who promises Daisy everything under the sun to get her to eat her peas!

Eating Fractions
Bruce McMillan
Two young children share a meal of food items that have been sectioned into a number of pieces (a halved banana, a roll that breaks into three pieces, etc.). Appealing photographs with recipes at the end of the book.

Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z
Lois Ehlert
A colorful book that introduces toddlers to a variety of fruits and vegetables (including jicama, jalapeno, kiwifruit, papaya and endive).

The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
Loreen Leedy
At The Edible Pyramid, the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid is the basis for this restaurant's menu.

Emma's Eggs
Margriet Ruurs, Barbara Spurll (Illustrator)
When Emma discovers that she can lay eggs, she wants to do it perfectly. But, she has difficulty understanding just what will please her owners.

Everybody Cooks Rice
Norah Dooley, Peter Thornton (Illustrator)
As a big sister goes in search of her younger brother, she finds a culturally diverse neighborhood where everyone is busy preparing dinner...with rice!

Extra Cheese, Please
Cris Peterson, Alvis Upitis (Photographer)
This book introduces children to dairy farms and cheese making. The photographs are appealing and work well with the clear, simple text.

Farmer's Market
Paul Brett Johnson
Illustrations and easy to read text about a child's day helping her family load the pickup with baskets of vegetables they have grown to sell at the weekly farmers' market.

Feast for 10
Cathryn Falwell
This is a counting book revolving around an African-American family doing their marketing and preparing the family meal.

Foods: Feasts, Cooks, and Kitchens
Richard Tames
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 illustrations and fascinating facts.

From Seed to Pumpkin
Jan Kottke
Colorful, informative book from the How Things Grow Series for early readers.

Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition
Lizzy Rockwell (Illustrator)
A clear presentation of the various nutrients and the foods we'll find them in. Includes a food guide pyramid as well as recipes for adults and children to make, together.

Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Sam-I-am once again tries to convince us all that green eggs and ham are a delicacy we shouldn't miss.

Growing Vegetable Soup
Lois Ehlert
After planting, watering and watching the vegetables grow in their garden, a father and son cook them into a soup (recipe included)!

Harvest Year
Cris Peterson
This beautiful 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, Giulio Maestro (Illustrator)
Have you ever eaten part of a flower? You have if you've ever eaten an apple! Find out how an apple grows from a bud to a flower to a fruit.

How My Family Lives in America
Susan Kuklin
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.

How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World
Marjorie Priceman
Since the supermarket is closed, the reader is led around the world -- to Italy, France, Sri Lanka, England, Jamaica and Vermont -- to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie.

In My Momma's Kitchen
Jerdine Nolen, Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
A young African-American girl narrates this collection of stories of a closely knit family, set in her mother's kitchen.

I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato
Lauren Child (Illustrator)
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 can be based more on preconception than taste buds.

Jody's Beans
Malachy Doyle, Judith Allibone (Illustrator)
Jody's grandfather helps her plant beans and teaches her how to care for the plants.

June 29, 1999
David Wiesner
In May, Holly Evans experiments by sending vegetable seedlings into the sky from her home in New Jersey. On June 29, gigantic vegetables are spotted in the skies!

Just Enough Carrots: Comparing Amounts
Stuart J. Murphy, Frank Remkiewicz (Illustrator)
While shopping for groceries, a young rabbit asks his mom to buy more carrots and less of those squirmy worms and chewy peanuts!

Let's Eat
Ana Zamorano, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)
A menu of traditional Spanish foods is presented in this beautiful and flavorful book.

Little Red Hen
Paul Galdone
This is the popular old favorite of the industrious hen and her lazy friends.

The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
Philemon Sturges, Amy Walrod (Illustrator)
This is a refashioning of the classic folktale, The Red Hen. Modernizing the original, this story has the little red hen visiting all sorts of stores while her friends refuse to help. But, when it comes time to eat her "lovely little pizza," she still invites her friends in to share in the feast.

The Lunch Line (Hello Math Reader, Level 3)
Karen Berman
Kim has to buy her lunch in the school lunch room, and wonders what she can buy with two quarters and five dimes.

The Market Lady and the Mango Tree
Pete Watson, Mary Watson (Illustrator)
Set in West Africa, the shrewd Market Lady notices that all the village children are waiting for sweet fruit to fall from the tree. So, she nets the fruit for herself and becomes quite wealthy. However, she soon learns that "you can't earn a living by selling what's free."

Milk: From Cow to Carton
Aliki
There are some very animated illustrations in this book about cows, milk, and milk processing.

My First Kwanzaa Book
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
This picture book tells the story of family customs celebrated during Kwanzaa.

Never Take a Pig Out to Lunch and Other Poems
about the Fun of Eating
Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator)
A collection of 50 poems and traditional rhymes about food and eating.

Oh, the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You: All About Staying Healthy
Tish Rabe, Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator)
The Cat in the Hat explains the basics of living healthy.

Oliver's Milk Shake
Vivian French, Alison Bartlett (Illustrator)
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.

Oliver's Vegetables
Vivian French, Alison Bartlett (Illustrator)
Oliver's clever grandpa strikes a bargain with Oliver: if Oliver finds the potatoes in Grandpa's garden, he can have french fries. But, if he finds something else, he must eat it with no complaint. For Oliver, vegetable eating quickly becomes a game.

Oliver's Fruit Salad
Vivian French, Alison Bartlett (Illustrator)
Oliver's wonderful grandfather grows fruit tastier than anything from a can or bottle -- or so Oliver tells his mother. However, that doesn't mean Oliver will eat any. But, his clever grandparents prevail, and get Oliver to try fruit salad, which he discovers is yummy!

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Demi (Illustrator)
Rani uses her mathematical skills to outsmart a selfish raja and secure food for her hungry people and save her village.

One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints
Diana Pomeroy
Using a variety of fruits and vegetables, this progressively more challenging counting book takes readers through attractive paintings made with carved potatoes.

One Watermelon Seed
Celia Barker Lottridge, Karen Patkau (Illustrator)
Plants, animals and insects are all depicted in this gardening counting book.

Pancakes for Breakfast
Tomie De Paola
A wordless picture book about a little old lady who tries to make pancakes for breakfast.

Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast:
Food Riddles for You to Guess
Argentina Palacios (Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1992)
A book of food riddles for young children.

The Popcorn Book
Tomie De Paola
An enjoyable read, full of scientific and historical facts about popcorn!

Pumpkin Pumpkin
Jeanne Titherington
Jamie plants a pumpkin seed, watches it grow, carves its face for Halloween and then, best of all, saves some seeds to plant again!

Pumpkin Soup
Helen Cooper
Cat, Squirrel and Duck all have clearly defined duties with regard to making pumpkin soup. One day, Duck decides he wants Squirrel's job, which results in hard feelings before the three agree to change roles.

Rabbit Food
Susanna Gretz (Illustrator)
This is a wonderful story for (and about) picky eaters!

The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
Gail Gibbons
This book teaches about the change of seasons through a story about Arnold, who enjoys the pleasures of his apple tree, all through the year.

The Seven Silly Eaters
Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla Frazee (Illustrator)
This is a rhyming picture book about a family of picky eaters who drive their mother crazy. Each new baby makes its own rigid food tastes clearly known.

Stone Soup: An Old Tale
Marcia Brown (Illustrator)
First published in 1947, this story revolves around three hungry soldiers who outwit a greedy village into giving them a feast.

Supermarket
Kathleen Krull, Melanie Hope Greenberg (Illustrator)
Take a trip down the aisles of this grocery store and learn where a variety of foods come from.

This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch:
A Book About Children Around the World
Edith Baer, Steve Bjorkman (Illustrator)
Take an exciting lunchtime tour around the world with upbeat rhymes and colorful illustrations.

Today is Monday
Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Each day of the week brings a new food until Sunday when children around the world "come and eat it up."

Tony's Bread: An Italian Folktale
Tomie De Paola
Tony dreams of becoming the most famous baker in northern Italy. His daughter dreams of getting married. One day, Angelo appears and makes both of their dreams come true.

Too Many Tamales
Gary Soto
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.

The Tortilla Factory/La Tortilleria
Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen (Illustrator)
This story book 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.

The Turnip
Harriet Ziefert, Laura Rader (Illustrator)
An old man enlists help to pull a stubborn turnip out of the ground.

Walter the Baker
Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Walter is famous for his baked goods. The Duke and Duchess love to have his sweet rolls delivered to their castle each morning. But, one day, Walter has to serve them rolls made with water instead of milk. The result? After the threat of banishment and a challenge from the Duke, Walter develops the twisted, salted pretzel!

We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
Jacqueline Woodson, Diane Greenseid (Illustrator)
Narrated by a little girl at a family picnic, this book introduces us to an eye-catching array of food.

Yoko
Rosemary Wells
On Yoko's first day of school her mother packs her a delicious lunch of homemade sushi. Yoko's classmates were quick to criticize her lunch for being uncool, but Yoko's teacher saved the day.