Little Red Hen and her chicks move into the Happy Valley section of the Hidden Forest. The hen's request for help from her lazy neighbors is met with the familiar chorus, "Not I." She writes of her new surroundings and adventures in letters to her friend Hetty Henny. Little does she know that she is the topic of conversation in letters between Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, who secretly decide to give her a hand. But not all is happy in Happy Valley with Wolfy Lupus and Fer O'Cious trying to make meals out of their neighbors. Hetty has a close call, but her scissors, needle, and thread provide her with a way out of trouble. Finally, when the Little Red Hen throws a party for her neighbors, the bad guys lose their opportunity to make a chicken dinner and slink off in shame and disappointment.

A little boy's meal gets a mind of its own and leads him on a chase.

Simple nutrition lessons taught through games, stories, science activities and more.

When Princess Paulina's father surrenders his kingship, Paulina sets out for a neighboring kingdom to marry Prince Drupert. She sails through the traditional pea test, stays in the running after the glass shoe fitting, but faces real difficulty with the third trial. Paulina finds herself left with some flour, yeast, water, tomatoes, cheese and the threat of a beheading if she can't concoct a tempting feast. She tosses the fruits of her culinary labor onto the hearth and wins the admiration of the prince and his mother, the queen. But Paulina has other plans. She spurns marriage and opens a successful pizza palace.

Simple, rhythmic text and bright, bold graphic illustrations combine in the traditional story about the industrious red hen and her very lazy friends who refuse to help her grow wheat or bake bread.

Mealtime should be a piece of cake, but Roger eats like a bird. This drives his mother bananas because he really should have three square meals a day. Children will find the sayings puzzling at first, but Bloch's images make everything clear and will leave readers of all ages pleased as punch.

The fictional diary of a young Plimoth settler named Christopher Sears, who documents the trials and tribulations of the year 1626. Heading for Jamestown, but stuck in Plimoth for many months, Sears describes the struggle, hard work, deaths, and uncomfortable surroundings. His diary is decorated with woodcuts depicting scenes from daily life in the village as well as some images of Native Americans and their way of living. The woodcuts are rich, powerful images inked with colors suitable to the time. The diary entries comment on the extremes of weather, the tedious labor, the boredom of military practice, the bland food, and also on the joy of the many marriages and births at Plimoth.

Old French tale about soldiers who trick miserly villages into making them a feast. This version won a Caldecott Medal when Brown retold and illustrated it in 1947.

Introduces children to the concepts of natural, capital and human resources. Children learn about the role of farms, food processing facilities and transportation networks in producing the food in the lunchboxes.

The barnyard rooster crows and Jack wakes up -- hungry, of course! What does he want for breakfast? A big pancake! But first, Jack's mother needs flour from the mill, an egg from the black hen, milk from the spotted cow, butter churned from fresh cream, and firewood for the stove. Will Jack ever get his pancake?

A beautifully illustrated narrative about a hungry caterpillar who eats his way from one food to the next, growing up to be a beautiful butterfly.

Each day of the week brings a new food. When Sunday arrives, children from around the world gather to share their favorite foods.

Based on a true story, this picture book recreates the events which led to the creation of the Pizza Margherita, which represents the red, white and green of the Italian flag.

What is in the grains group? Popcorn, oatmeal, pasta and much more. Presents examples from the grains group and highlights some of their health benefits. Grains-based foods are printed in color for easy identification.

This graphically appealing, colorful and fact-rich story describes the importance of food to the body by following an apple as it goes through the digestive system.

This book examines the science of food, while instructing children on the science behind various cooking reactions. Answers such questions as "How does bread rise?" and "Why does popcorn pop?" Includes over 100 simple, quick recipes that can be made with easy-to-obtain ingredients and standard kitchen equipment.

With visions of pancakes dancing in her head, a little old lady goes to great lengths to procure the necessary ingredients.

The math concepts of addition, large numbers and fractions are illustrated with artfully decorated pizzas depicting a smiling face, a cat, a flag, etc. The ingredients are counted in the text. Numerals are used to show the total of two items. Another pie is symmetrically decorated with 100 garnishes and duplicated 10 times on one page and 100 times on the next to illustrate the numbers 1000 and 10,000. Millions and billions are demonstrated by citing the number of pizzas needed to circle the globe and reach the moon. The book concludes with pies divided to show fractional concepts.

Illustrated collection of humorous poems.

Burgers are the only thing Benny will eat. His mom warns him he will turn into a hamburger if he doesn't watch out, and that is just what happens. His mom feeds him veggies to get him back to normal, then warns him he can't eat just vegetables, either, because he might turn into a vegetable. Cute story to teach the importance of a varied diet.

An alphabetical tour of fruits and vegetables, featuring vibrantly colored collage illustrations, large capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet, an A to Z glossart of produce and a pronunciation guide.

In brightly-colored collage illustrations, a father and child share the simple joys of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow in their garden. Then they cook them all up into a delicious vegetable soup, the recipe for which is included.

In graphic novel format, the book tells the story of Louis Pasteur's invention of the pasteurization process, including information about food-borne illness and the discovery of microorganisms.

A corn tortilla version of the Little Red Hen story.

A little boy decides to surprise his parents by making them breakfast. He and his dog head to the market, where Mr. Jones gives them a quick lesson in where their pancake ingredients come from.

Student-friendly format and colorful graphics help introduce students to the science behind and issues surrounding the production of food using genetic engineering. Stimulates discussion.

Alexander's afternoon snacking choice becomes a heated argument among some fiesty fruit about which is the best for Alexander's young, growing body.

Introduces young children to the variety of food we eat, including where it comes from and how it is prepared and cooked.

A rhyming picture book about a family of picky eaters who drive their mother frantic. As each baby is born, it makes its rigid nutritional tastes known through bellowing demands. For example, Peter wants milk, but it must be warm, not hot, not cold. Mary Lou has to be fed "soft and squishy homemade bread. Jack - all he'll eat is applesauce. One twin wants poached eggs, the other fried. The line-and-color illustrations extend the silly fun as the comfortable house gets more and more cluttered and chaotic.

Austin Maxwell liked the nickname Mom gave him. She called him "Pancake" because that was his favorite food. Richard's favorite sport was baseball. When Richard's mom visited his grandparents for a week, Pancake complained to his sister that it would be an awful week with their "Fuddy Duddy Daddy" in charge. Could Richard survive the week with Dad cooking his pancakes and playing baseball?

Young ones learn to make pizza from scratch. The rhyming text follows three friends as they collect ingredients, mix and knead the dough, add the toppings, bake and then clean the kitchen.

Facts about America's culinary heritage covering such topics as manners, food preservation, and culinary staples such as corn. Ichord also includes a section on regional diversity and one she calls "Soul Cooking," which focuses on the unique cuisine created by slaves. Recipes for popular dishes, updated for modern kitchens and accompanied by clear directions and discussion of how the same dish would have been prepared by colonial cooks, conclude each chapter. Children will need adult help when they prepare the food, but they'll have fun learning the history and making such dishes as johnnycakes, pumpkin soup, and, of course, hasty pudding.

What do tomatoes, chocolate, beans, corn, pepers and peanuts have in common? Johnson gives a straightforward overview of these and other foods that are native to the Americas, with a discussion of their early use, methods of preparation and how they were transported and adapted beyond American borders.

Covers various health concerns related to the food we eat and explains and discusses ways to avoid them. Personal responsibility for food safety and the importance of hand washing are stressed.

Describes what carbohydrates are, what types of foods contain them, how they are digested and used to produce energy, and their role in a healthy diet.

Kid-friendly recipes with detailed, step-by-step instructions for adults with a second set of instructions for kids. Includes color pictures of dancing produce. All the recipes have been preschooler-tested.

Simple instructions help parents or older children guide young ones through the preparation of fun and nutritious snacks, including tomato towers, alphabet sandwiches and dinosaur eggs. Instead of disguising healthy food with cheese sauce or syrups, children learn that eating foods that are good for their bodies can be enjoyable and creative.

Humor, zoo animals, bright illustrations and the escapades of a little boy named Bubba teach children to choose a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables over unhealthy junk foods.

The story of wheat in a rhyming poem with excellent photos. The baker sows the seed in his backyard and sowing and threshing are done by hand rather than by modern methods.

Illustrated tour of the digestive system.

With her distinctive cut-paper artistry, McClure follows a young boy and his mother on market day when they shop for apples, kale, honey, smoked salmon and other green-market items and traces each to its source. Kids will love learning how milk is curdled and honey collected from hives.

Piggy and Fox are both the runts of their litters. They open a pancake parlor together. Realistic facial features run the gamut of emotional expression.

What are peanuts - are they peas or are they nuts? Do they grow above or below ground? Who invented peanut butter? This fascinating picture book, with its concise, detailed text and abundant illustrations, ranging from the humorous to the scientific, offers a spirited introduction to the life cycle, many uses, and historical influences of the peanut.

Featuring a friendly, rotund green monster determined to make healthy choices, this book presents basic information about food, exercise and health. Each topic is introduced in one or two paragraphs; additional facts appear in boxes, sidebars, lists and diagrams. Silly jokes are tucked everywhere.

Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more. Here is a collection of haiku celebrating 14 foods native to the Americas. Cross-curricular, double-paged, with acrylic illustrations on wood panels and a paragraph of information to introduce the foods.

Tells of Thomas Jefferson's trip to France in 1784 and all the exotic foods he learned about and then brought back to America, including ice cream, macaroni and cheese and tomatoes.

Hands-on activity book shows how to use noodles in simple activities that build early math skills like number recognition, shape recognition, counting, measuring, estimating and telling time.

Paulsen tells young readers how a corn seed eventually becomes a tortilla. "The black earth sleeps in winter...," but in the spring, it is worked by brown hands that plant the yellow seeds. Seeds become plants, and then the corn is ground into flour and sent to the tortilla factory. The flour disks come off the machine, are packaged, and eventually arrive in kitchens -" to be wrapped around juicy beans and eaten by white teeth, to fill a round stomach and give strength to the brown hands that work the black earth." This circular telling works nicely with the strong, attractive paintings that get texture from their linen surface.

Discusses what fats are, how they are absorbed and stored in the body, how the body uses fats, and health problems caused by fats.

Prelutsky relates personal anecdotes and then shows how he created poems from them, in most cases by using comic exaggeration to suit his artistic purposes.

Patrick makes a surpise discovery one morning when he goes into the kitchen for breakfast. A cow provides milk, chickens give him eggs and he gets his maple syrup from a maple tree. A good exploration for young readers of where they get their food.

Early reader with excellent photographs good for teaching about culture and meeting human needs.

Raisins are too wrinkley, tomatoes are too squishy, fruit is too fruity. Slimy, slurpy and bumpy things are no good. Even lollipops are too licky and rice too sticky. But suddenly, on the last page, something is yummy enough to finish to the last crumb.

Activity guide summarizes the history, science and culture of what kids eat day after day, demonstrates how certain foods evolved as well as how modern technology plays a part in food production, packaging and delivery. Also illustrates the traditional route from farm to table, the impact of eating locally grown foods, the importance of nutrition and the role of food in ancient times.

Jeffrey is tired of the same old fairy tales and wants to hear about Grandma's life growing up in the old country as a Hamburger.

Robbins presents a cornucopia of information about apples, oranges, corn, bananas, tomatoes, potatoes, pomegranates, grapes and mushrooms. In addition to sharing interesting bits of trivia, the author offers brief descriptions of related events from history, such as the Irish Potato Famine, and/or short synopses of the item's appearance in mythology.

How many amino acids can your body make? Are nuts a healthy snack? What are antibodies?

Discusses what vitamins and minerals are, how they are digested, absorbed and used by the body and the role of these substances in a healthy diet.

Discusses what water and fiber are, what foods they can be found in and how the body absorbs, digests and uses these ingredients.

Take a bite out of the calendar with this cheerful collection of delicious seasonal poems, each one an ode to a favorite food! Read about Popcorn Astronauts as they hurtle through the air. Dive into a watermelon lake and sing the praises of mac and cheese in this playful and poetic celebration of food. In spring, bow to the “Strawberry Queen.” In summer you'll meet Bob the Ogre, who only eats corn on the cob, and in fall, you can learn “21 Things to Do with an Apple.” And then in winter, retreat from the cold at “The Cocoa Cabana!” Stellar team Deborah Ruddell and Joan Rankin deliver a whimsical celebration of the tastiest treats of life in this palatable poetry collection.

A whimsical chef introduces young children to fun food experiences that stir up their interest in fruits and vegetables

Life-sized introduction to what animals eat, how they eat it and how much they eat in a single bite. Good for discussions of portion size and measurement.

Well-organized volume discusses many of the questions teens may have about food production, including the use of chemicals, hormones, genetic engineering and more. The relevant laws are explained and the pro and con arguments are presented factually using text that is easy to read. Excellent resource for reports.

A journey through the human digestive system into mouth, down the gullet, into the stomach and finally into the small and large intestines, showing what the body does to help transform the food you eat and what it does with what's left over.

When a snazzy fast-food chain moves into town, business at Joe's favorite hamburger restaurant begins to suffer. He gets an idea that is sure to bring back the diners, but the secret recipe for the burgers is missing. Can Joe figure out the ingredients to recreate the perfect hamburger before it's too late?

Divided into three sections, the book begins with a look at some of the less common foods eaten today, such as frog legs, earthworms, snakes, insects, flowers, and seaweed, considers strange fare from the past, such as a menu from a medieval royal feast in England (14 oxen and 50 swans, among other things), the rat stew eaten by sailors, and the robins popular in Colonial America. "If You Think That's Sick, Look in Your Fridge" takes a look at how many common edibles, such as milk, cheese, honey, and mushrooms, are grown or produced. Each double-page spread includes basic facts and lots of interesting trivia.

Told entirely in verse, the story relates the experiences of sixth grader Bindi whose mom and dad separate. Bindi and her mom move to an apartment above The Dancing Pancake, a cafe opened by Bindi's mother and aunt. The cafe is populated with interesting staff and customers who help Bindi learn about friendship and empathy.

Hoping to rise above his level of poverty, clever Hare strikes a deal with a rich and lazy bear in which Bear will contribute the land while Hare will provide the labor for a profitable harvest.

Hen, having decided to make a pizza, discovers that she lacks certain necessities, such as a proper pan. When she asks her neighbors to help her out, she gets the expected response: "Not I," said the duck donning her swim cap and tube. "Not I," said the dog wearing a box of dog biscuits and a party hat. "Not I," said the hep blue cat playing the saxophone. So off the Little Red Hen goes to the store to buy the things she needs-along with others she surely does not need, such as a guide to sink installation. When she finally gets her pizza made, the three unaccommodating friends change their tune.

Simple sentences describe the process from cow to milking and processing. All the images are of modern farm equipment and modern processing operations. Includes a short glossary.

When a little mouse discovers a tasty treat that's even bigger than he is, he must learn the importance of sharing and appropriate portion sizes.

Moves beyond the basics of how bread is made and explains how cultures interpret bread and how bread impacts culture. It explores a wide variety of bread from across the globe and explains the characteristics of each and what its name signifies.

Pasta and pizza book contains step-by-step illustrations which make the recipe very easy to follow.

Early each morning, with her orange-striped cat at her side, Sally opens up her pizzeria. Before her customers arrive, she chops, stirs and simmers her sauce; measures, mixes and kneads her dough, and then assembles the delectable pies. Cheerful, precisely composed gouache paintings accented with photo collages of fresh ingredients add warmth and humor to the story.

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions take readers from dough to sauce to toppings to completed pizza. An overview of necessary cooking tools is included, as is an index and glossary.

Three lively kids make pancakes for breakfast. Mixed-media illustrations with variegated pastel scribbles and color splotches in the background convey the children's action. Simple poem with onomatopoeic phrases and catchy rhythm.

Pinky Pig adds variety to the burgers at the diner where she works by catering to her customers—a snailburger supreme for Hedgehog, a burger with worms lightly fried for Mole, a termite-infested burger for Aardvark and a Burger Deluxe, with three kinds of bugs.

The Aldens are having a delicious time helping out at a pizza parlor. They toss dough in the kitchen and even invent a new kind of pizza. But when a blackout and other problems hurt business, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to shut down the pizzeria.

Simple sentences describe the process from cow to milking and processing. All the images are of modern farm equipment and modern processing operations. Includes a short glossary.