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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pumpkin pumpkin
Titherington, Jeanne
A little boy plants a pumpkin seed and watches it grow from a tiny sprout to a huge orange pumpkin. In the end, he picks the pumpkin and carves it for Halloween. However, he does save six seeds for planting next spring.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tom

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

My first look at time
Kindersley, Dorling
Important times of a child's day are highlighted from nutrition to hygiene.

Snow on snow on snow
Chapman, Cheryl
Playing in the winter snow leads to a search for a missing companion.

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.

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.

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.

Tortillas
Gonzalez-Jensen, Margarita
As a family prepares their tortillas, they describe the different ways to cook and eat tortillas.

Lemon whip
Razvan
A cake and a lemon escape from a refrigerator to explore the world together. They see many things and decide to travel over land and sea together, forever.

Ten potatoes in a pot and other counting rhymes
Katz, Michael Jay
Learn numbers one through twelve with these counting rhymes!

Fruits: A caribbean counting poem
Bloom, Valerie
Counting fruit can be fun, especially if you get to eat it when you're done! From half a pawpaw to ten bananas, these two sisters count it all. They forget one thing though -- eating too much can make you sick!

Miranda's day to dance
Schaefer, Jackie Jasina
Miranda collects tropical fruit each day of the week in order to make a headdress to wear on Sunday, which is her day to dance. Fruits such as bananas, pineapples, and raspberries are shown with a different animal indigenous to South America.

Breakfast time, ernest and celestine
Vincent, Gabrielle
When Celestine, a mouse, breaks a cup, her bear friend Ernest offers to help her clean up the mess. But Celestine thinks that is is her responsibility.

Milk from cow to carton
Aliki.
Describes the steps of milking a cow then processing it at a dairy. Children also learn how butter and cheese are made from milk.

Little pink pig
Hutchins, Pat
When Little Pink Pig's mother is calling him for bedtime, his head is buried in apples and he can't hear her. As his mother goes around the barnyard gathering animals to help her find her son, Little Pink Pig keeps falling into places where he can't hear the animals' calls to him.

What was it before it was bread?
Moncure, Jane Belk
A loaf of bread begins as a tiny seed from which flour then dough is made. Describes the steps at the bakery and at the grocery store.