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Tortillas

Gonzalez-Jensen, Margarita

As a family prepares their tortillas, they describe the different ways to cook and eat tortillas.

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cooking, customs, family, food, nutrition

Something queer in rock and roll

Levy, Elizabeth

A group of young friends start a music group and want to enter a contest. Their dog, Arnold, howls in their song It's a Dog's Life. A boy from another group sabotages them by feeding Arnold so much pizza that he will not howl anymore.

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animals, competition, conflict resolution, deception, dog, food, friendship, music, nutrition, pets, problem solving

Afro-bets: Book of colors

Brown, Margery

Colors tell us many things. Red means danger and says stop. Yellow is the color of a banana. Purple is the color of grapes. When you mix certain colors, they make new colors.

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african american, colors, food, multicultural, nutrition, safety

The m & m counting book

McGrath, Barbara Barbieri

Using M & M candies, this book teaches young children to count, add, and subtract. Shapes and colors can be learned too.

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colors, counting, food, nutrition, sequence, shapes

Snow on snow on snow

Chapman, Cheryl

Playing in the winter snow leads to a search for a missing companion.

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animals, clothing, companion, dog, food, friendship, loss, missing, nutrition, play, seasons, snow, winter

My first look at time

Kindersley, Dorling

Important times of a child's day are highlighted from nutrition to hygiene.

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cleanliness, food, hygiene, nutrition

Hannah's farm

McCurdy, Michael

Hannah helps her family cut wood, plant crops, gather crops, and make Christmas dinner on their farm in the early days of America. She discovers that her job changes with the seasons.

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animals, autumn, change, christmas, cow, dog, family, farm, food, grandparents, helping, history, holidays, horse, nutrition, parents, pioneers, plants, responsibilities, seasons, siblings, spring, summer, winter

Frog goes to dinner

Mayer, Mercer

A boy goes to a fancy dinner with his family and in his pocket brings along his pet frog. When the frog gets loose, all kinds of disasters happen.

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amphibians, chaos, disobedience, family, food, frog, nonverbal communication, nutrition, pets

Plum pudding for christmas

Kahl, Virginia

When the kingdom celebrates Christmas, the King demands Plum Pudding. Unfortunately someone has eaten all the plums in the land. Follow the cooks as they try to save the feast...and their heads.

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celebration, christmas, conflict resolution, decision making, food, holidays, nutrition, royalty

Pizza man

Pillar, Marjorie

The Pizza Man explains his daily duties and the procedure of making a pizza, from making the dough to assembling the pie to cleaning up at the end of the day.

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business, careers, feelings, food, goal setting, happiness, nonverbal communication, nutrition, pride, responsibilities, routine, self esteem

Bread, bread, bread

Morris, Ann

Bread comes in many sizes and shapes and is eaten by people all over the world. Bread helps you grow and makes you strong. Look at all the different cultures that use bread!

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author's note, careers, food, multicultural, nutrition

Tom

dePaola, Tomie

Tommy and his grandfather share the same name. At the same time they enjoy sharing time together and playing jokes on one another. One day, Tom gives Tommy some chicken legs because he is a butcher. He takes the chicken legs to school and gets in trouble for scaring a girl.

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careers, deception, disobedience, family, food, grandparents, nutrition, school, verbal communication

Skipper john's cook

Brown, Marcia

A new cook is hired on a ship, because the old cook just fixed beans. After a few days, the crew finds out all the new cook does is fry fish and make beans just like the olde cook. Once again, the crew looks for a new cook.

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careers, conflict resolution, food, nutrition, peer resistance, ship, transportation, verbal communication

Pizza for breakfast

Kovalski, Maryann

Frank and Zeldo own a pizza place. When business gets slow, a strange man appears and grants them wishes. The pizza place is soon booming and is too much for them to handle. They decide to try something new so they move to the beach and set up a pizza stand.

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beach, careers, food, goal setting, nutrition, sleep, teamwork

What happens to your food?

Smith, Alastair

What happens to food after we eat it?It goes on a long and interesting journey through our bodies. Learn what happens as we follow the process of digestion for solid and liquid foods.

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beverage, body parts, decision making, five senses, food, health, nutrition, sequence, sight, smell, taste, teeth

Too many cooks...

Kneen, Maggie

Twenty well known proverbs are given meaning through clever illustrations featuring animals in a variety of situations. Some of the proverbs illustrated include, Too many cooks spoil the broth, Half a loaf is better than none, and Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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animals, author's note, bear, birds, cat, dog, duck, elephant, flamingo, food, fox, horse, mouse, nutrition, owl, pig

The egg

Bourgoing, Pascale

Do you know how a baby chick is hatched?Learn how other animals, birds, and fish lay eggs. Also learn the different ways that eggs are eaten by people, such as fried, caviar, chocolate, and hard-boiled.

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amphibians, birds, chicken, crab, crocodile, crustaceans, fish, food, frog, goose, mollusks, nutrition, ostrich, owl, reptiles, snail, snake, turkey, turtle

Orange juice

Chanko, Pamela//Chessen, Betsey

Do you ever wonder where orange juice comes from?Follow the growth of an orange from a tiny seedling to the ripe, juicy fruit that is squeezed to make orange juice.

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animals, beverage, birds, cycle, farm, five senses, flowers, food, history, nutrition, plants, reproduction, sequence, sight, taste, wood

What was it before it was orange juice?

Moncure, Jane Belk

A boy asks his mother, What was orange juice before it was orange juice? Describes how orange juice starts as a tiny seed. The tiny seed then grows into an orange tree and is eventually manufactured into juice.

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beverage, farm, food, nutrition, plants

Avocado baby

Burningham, John

The Hargrave family is very weak. Mrs. Hargrave has a baby who will not eat and is also very weak. One day the baby's mother feeds him avocado pears. The baby becomes so strong that he can move furniture, defend other children, and scare burglars.

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assertiveness, baby, conflict resolution, critical thinking, food, nonverbal communication, nutrition

The butter battle book

Seuss, Dr.

A grandfather tells his grandson about the bad habit of the Zook people. The Zooks eat their bread with the butter side down. The Zooks and Vooks are separated by a wall, and they always argue about the way things should be done.

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argument, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, differences, family, food, grandparents, nutrition, self esteem, war

The tale of squirrel nutkin

Potter, Beatrix

Nutkin is a little squirrel with no manners. Nutkin and the other squirrels ask Old Brown the owl if they can gather nuts. Nutkin is very disrespectful and bothers Old Brown. Old Brown bites Nutkin's tail off. Nutkin learns a hard lesson.

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animals, conflict resolution, disobedience, food, island, learning, misbehavior, nonverbal communication, nutrition, owl, rhyme, squirrel, verbal communication

Bon appetit, mr. rabbit!

Boujon, Claude

Mr. Rabbit does not like carrots, so he investigates what his other animal friends eat. Based on his findings, Mr. Rabbit decides carrots are not so bad after all!

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, decision making, food, friendship, investigation, nutrition, rabbit, verbal communication

Spaghetti for suzy

Coplans, Peta

Spaghetti is Suzy's favorite food. In fact, she has it for every meal. While at the park eating spaghetti, Suzy meets some animals who ask to borrow pieces of her spaghetti to replace shoelaces, fishing line, or yarn for knitting. After they have taken all of her spaghetti, the animals bring Suzy some fruit. The fruit is almost as good a spaghetti!

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animals, cat, dog, food, nutrition, pig

Hi, pizza man!

Walter, Virginia

A young girl waits anxiously for the pizza man to arrive. While she waits, her mother asks her how she would greet the delivery boy if he were a woman, cat, dog, duck, cow, snake, or dinosaur.

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animals, anticipation, birds, cat, cow, dinosaur, dog, duck, food, manners, nutrition, reptiles, snake, verbal communication

Horton hatches the egg

Seuss, Dr.

Horton the elephant is asked to sit on Mayzie's egg while she takes a break. He ends up sitting on it for a long time. After several seasons the egg hatches into an elephant bird. Horton takes the baby home with him.

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animals, birds, birth, determination, elephant, food, goal setting, helping, nutrition, refusal skills, responsibilities

Gregory, the noisiest and strangest boy in grangers grove

Bright, Robert

Gregory is the noisiest and strangest boy in Grangers Grove, and he knows it. One day he goes to his grandma's house for griddle cakes. All she needs is a few eggs, but Gregory is too busy showing off to listen.

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animals, bear, change, family, farm, food, grandparents, growing up, mule, noise, nutrition, pride, self esteem

The oreo cookie counting book

Albee, Sarah

From 10 to 1, it's Oreo counting fun. Practice counting down from 10 to 1 with the help of Oreo cookies. Oh, some friends have come along to help. Turn the page and find out how many Oreos are left.

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activities, animals, baby, bear, beverage, birthday, cat, celebration, counting, dog, elephant, food, magic, numbers, nutrition, rabbit, sequence, sharing, zoo

The rattlebang picnic

Mahy, Margaret

Jack and Marion McTavish decide to get an old car and have 7 children instead of 1 new car. They go on a picnic adventure with their children and Granny McTavish who always cooks everything too long.

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adventures, car, critical thinking, decision making, family, food, geology, grandparents, mountains, nutrition, parents, picnic, siblings, transportation, travel, verbal communication, volcano

Happily appley

Munz, Elizabeth

A comprehensive look at apples is presented. Items include recipes (apple egg nog, applesauce-raisin bread, Johnny Appleseed meatballs), activities (fruit and vegetable prints and apple head dolls), apple lore, how apples are grown, and the different varieties of apples.

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activities, dolls, food, fruit, nutrition, plants, recipe, vegetables

$The hershey's milk chocolate bar fractions book$

The hershey's milk chocolate bar fractions book

Pallotta, Jerry

Unwrap a Hershey's milk chocolate bar and read along as chocolate pieces become math fractions. Learn about parts of a whole, numerators, denominators, and fractions. Take a trip to count more fractions on the farm. Visit the chocolate factory and the cacao trees where cocoa pods grow.

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animals, colors, counting, cow, farm, food, math, numbers, nutrition, picnic, plants, recipe, sequence

How my parents learned to eat

Friedman, Ina R.

An American sailor meets a Japanese school girl. Neither of them know how to eat in the same manner as the other.

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american, conflict resolution, customs, decision making, family, food, goal setting, japanese, learning, marriage, multicultural, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, relationship

Too many tamales

Soto, Gary//Martinez, Ed

Maria is excited because it is Christmas Eve and she is helping her family make tamales for the holiday. When Maria's mom leaves the kitchen, Maria tries on her mom's ring. Maria thinks she loses the ring in the tamale mix and tries to find it.

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celebration, christmas, food, holidays, lost, mexican american, multicultural, nutrition, responsibilities

William's shadow

Austin, Margot

William the woodchuck wakes up after hibernation and is starving. William's friends bring him his meals in bed one day because they do not want him to see his shadow.

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animals, assertiveness, decision making, food, friendship, groundhog's day, holidays, nutrition, peer resistance, refusal skills, seasons, verbal communication, woodchuck

Flim and flam and the big cheese

Garrison, Christian

Two brothers, one fat and one thin, live together. Flam eats all the food and leaves nothing for Flim. So Flim decides to trick Flam into drinking the pond by placing a piece of cheese in the middle of it. Flam drinks the whole pond not realizing the cheese was the reflection of the moon. When Flam cannot move, Flim eats a very satisfying meal.

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assertiveness, beverage, bodies of water, body image, conflict resolution, decision making, family, food, greed, nutrition, pond, self esteem, siblings

Soup for supper

Root, Phyllis

A small woman who has a hearty vegetable garden that she loves very much, encounters a giant who steals all her vegetables. She chases after him and realizes that they can share vegetable soup and a friendship.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, food, friendship, garden, giants, helping, mythical, nutrition, robbery, sharing, stress management, vegetables, verbal communication

How pizza came to queens

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

There is no pizza in May's town until Mrs. Pelligrino comes to visit and teaches them how to make delicious food.

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careers, community, family, feelings, five senses, food, friendship, italian, multicultural, nutrition, sadness, smell

Chocolate chip cookies

Wagner, Karen

Two little boys show how to make chocolate chip cookies through a set of one word instructions.

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five senses, food, helping, learning, nutrition, recipe, sequence, smell, taste, teamwork

A book of fruit

Lember, Barbara Hirsch

Shows with pictures where all different fruits grow. For example, apples in an apple orchard and berries in the berry patch.

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farm, food, fruit, garden, nutrition, plants

Passover

Nerlove, Miriam

It is time for Passover and a father tells his son the tradition of Passover. He explains the different types of food that are eaten and the hunt that occurs after dinner. They then sing songs together.

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author's note, family, food, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, music, nutrition, parents, passover, siblings, song, traditions

Rosie goes shopping

Newcome, Zita

Rosie and her mother go on a shopping trip. They buy many different foods and other needed items.

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family, food, nutrition, shopping

The egg book

Morris, Ann

Three kids crack eggs, melt butter, add milk, then beat and eat their scrambled eggs.

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family, food, ingredients, nutrition, preparation, sequence

Christmas time

Stock, Catherine

It is time for Christmas, so the family goes to look for a tree. They find one and take it home to decorate it. In preparation for the arrival of Santa, they also bake cookies, sing songs, and make hot cocoa.

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celebration, christmas, family, food, holidays, nutrition, preparation, santa, seasons, winter

Thanksgiving treat

Stock, Catherine

It is time for Thanksgiving and everyone is busy running around to get ready for the big feast. The youngest child wants to help, but everyone tells him he isn't needed. His grandpa comes to the rescue and makes everyone happy.

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autumn, celebration, family, food, grandparents, holidays, nutrition, parents, seasons, siblings, thanksgiving

Grandma's latkes

Drucker, Malka

Molly tries to beat her grandmother at grating potatoes, but her grandma is too fast. As Molly and her grandmother make latkes for Hanukkah, her grandmother tells a story about why they celebrate Hanukkah.

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celebration, family, food, grandparents, hanukkah, holidays, Jewish, multicultural, nutrition, preparation, recipe, storytelling, traditions

Staying with grandma

Roe, Eileen

A little girl tells what staying with her grandmother means for her. It means catching frogs, picking vegetables from the garden, shelling peas for supper, and having peach jam on toast.

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amphibians, family, food, frog, garden, grandparents, helping, nutrition, running, storytelling, vegetables

Mrs. piccolo's easy chair

Jackson, Jean

A loving, but hungry easy chair follows Mrs. Piccolo to the grocery store to purchase some cheese puffs. A few obstacles attempt to stop the chair from purchasing the cheese puffs, so the chair decides to swallow people to accomplish its task. Will the people from the chair ever get out?

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assertiveness, community, companion, conflict resolution, determination, disappearance, food, friendship, hunger, love, market, mischief, moods, nonverbal communication, nutrition, relaxation, shopping, sounds

Nate the great and the lost list

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

Nate is confronted by his scatter-brained friend, Claude, to help find Claude's missing grocery list. Nate, after eating Claude's pancakes, realizes that the recipe for these is Claude's grocery list.

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critical thinking, decision making, food, friendship, lost, mystery, nutrition, problem solving

Two good friends

Delton, Judy

A duck stays at home and cleans his house all day. His friend, Bear, comes to visit and tries to find something to eat. Bear cannot find anything and they go to Bear's house to cook some food.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, birds, conflict resolution, decision making, food, friendship, nutrition, responsibilities, shelter, teamwork, verbal communication

The edible pyramid: Good eating every day

Leedy, Loreen

The Edible Pyramid restaurant opens as the maitre d' explains the food pyramid menu to the customers. The maitre d' discusses which foods are included in each group. He also discusses how many servings from each group should be eaten everyday.

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beverage, food, numbers, nutrition

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