Let’s Eat!
This book features a photographic exploration of children around the world and what they eat and cook. It includes several recipes in the back for sweet treats from each continent.
Fruit
How Did That Get Into My Lunchbox?
This book traces the origins of common foods like bread, cheese, apple juice, and chocolate chip cookies from the farm to the factory to the lunchbox. Brightly colored illustrations depict every stop along the way.
How Do You Raise a Raisin?
This book describes the process of growing grapes and drying them in the sun until they are raisins. Each page includes factual information about making raisins, as well as rhyming prose.
Harvest
After a summer of tending the garden it is time to harvest the delicious rewards of all that hard work.
Pick Pull Snap: Where Once a Flower Bloomed
This book introduces students to new vegetables and fruits and how they grow. It features beautiful illustrations and foldout pages that capture students’ attention. A calendar on the last page displays images related to each month and season and a planting guide describes how to grow all of the plants featured in the book.
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
Ever wonder why a tomato is actually a fruit? This book explains exactly what a fruit is in simple terms that young children can understand.
First Garden: The White House Garden and How it Grew
Over the years the US presidents have enjoyed the south lawn of the White House in a variety of ways. When Barack Obama became president, First Lady Michelle Obama decided to plant a kitchen garden on the lawn! With the help of some local school children the south lawn was transformed into an edible garden.
Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs
An informative book that uses words and photographs to describe a year in the life of a cranberry bog.
Eating the Alphabet – Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
A good way to introduce new veggies and fruits.