Child Friendly Nutrition Books

 

Below are some recommended children's books on food and good nutrition. Check one out at your local library today!

The Amazing Milk Book
by Paulette Bourgeois, Catherine Ross and Susan Wallace
This book describe milk's chemistry, nutritional value, production and use as a component of cheese and other foods. It's enriched with anecdotes and humor.

The Beastly Feast
by Bruce Goldstone
At the great animal feast, bears bring pears and mosquitoes bring burritos.

Belly Laughs
by Charles Keller
These 75 food jokes and illustrations are written especially for children.

Blue’s Snack Party
by Sarah Landy.
Blue’s friends bring healthy snacks to a party. Discover each snack by lifting flaps that reveal ingredients, recipes and finished dishes.

A Book of Fruit
by Barbara Hirsch Lember
While most children recognize fruit in a bowl or in a supermarket, some have never seen fruit growing on a tree or a bush. This well-photographed book makes the connection between the fruit and where and how it grows before it arrives at the supermarket. Photos of single servings of fruit appear on pages opposite photos of where the fruit grows.

Bread, Bread, Bread
by Ann Morris
With large photographs, this book depicts the wide variety of breads from around the world. From India to Mexico, from Peru to Indonesia, from Ghana to Greece, international breads are shown.

Bread is for Eating
by David and Phillis Gershator
Mamita explains how bread is created and sings, "El Pan es Para Comer" ("Bread is for Eating"). Music and lyrics in both Spanish and English are included.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
by Judy Barrett
The townspeople love it when food falls from the sky -- until the food gets too big to swallow.

Cooking UP U.S. History: Recipes and Research to Share with Childrenby Suzanne I. Barchers and Patricia C. Marden
This book supplies a word list, recipes and a bibliography for five historical periods of U.S. history and six regions of the U.S.

Dinner at the Panda Palace
by Stephanie Calmenson
Babies and toddlers see animals dining out at the Panda Palace.

Dinosaurs Alive and Well; A Guide to Good Health
by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Colorful and bright dinosaurs provide kids with a blueprint to good health. Nutrition, exercise and fitness are some of the topics that are encountered.

Dumpling Soup
by Jama Kim Rattigan
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
by Marc Brown
Arthur the Aardvark's sister, D.W., 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.

The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
by Loreen Leedy
At the Edible Pyramid Restaurant, guests learn about all the foods they can eat from USDA's Food Guide Pyramid.

Everybody Cooks Rice
by Norah Dooley
Anthony is late for dinner. So his sister goes from house to house looking for him. In each home, she finds families preparing rice in a different way. This multicultural dinner tale ends with several recipes for rice -- from Barbados, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, India, China, Haiti, and Italy.

Extra Cheese, Please!: Mozzarella's Journey from Cow to Pizzaby Cris Peterson
This well-photographed book describes how cheese is made, from a Wisconsin dairy farm until a cheese factory ships the final product across America.

Family Pictures: Cuadros de Familiaby Carmen Lomas Garza
The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas. Several of the stories focus on food-picking, cactus, making tamales, eating tacos, picking oranges and eating watermelon.

Foods: Feasts, Cooks, and Kitchens
by Richard Tames
This history of food discusses the types of foods and cooking method 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.

Grandpa's Garden Lunch
by Judith Caseley
Take a trip down to the garden with Sarah and her Grandpa and learn the basics of gardening. Kids will learn about how various foods grow. They will also see why "patience is a virtue."

Gregory, The Terrible Eater
by Mitchell SharmatGregory the goat likes eggs, vegetables, fruit and fish. But his parents want him to eat garbage!

Group Soup
by Barbara Brenner
A selfish rabbit learns that sharing is the one ingredient needed to make the perfect Group Soup.

How My Family Lives In America
by Susan Kuklin
This book tells the story of three children, each with an immigrant parent. For each family, the foods 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.