As promised … I made out a little list of some of my favorite books with food for young foodettes and grown-folks alike. Books with food, like movies with food, give a great sparkling fascination (or craving) to what we already know, balanced with what could be our next great taste!
Like many, I remember trying Turkish Delight after reading The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe. The descriptions alone were enough to make me want it bad enough, but I gotta say.. somehow, for myself, the descriptions were a tad more appetizing than when I actually had it 😉
Since then, I still of course marvel at the new stories with food for children, and love how much the genre has expanded!
Here are some of my personal favorites:
I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato (Charlie & Lola series) – Lauren Child
Pete’s A Pizza – William Steig
Pizza At Sally’s – Monica Wellington
Apple Farmer Annie – Monica Wellington
Bee Bim Bop! – Linda Sue Park
Little Pea – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food – Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
Pancakes! – Eric Carle
Blueberries For Sal – Robert McCloskey
Strega Nona – Tomie De Paola
The Popcorn Book – Tomie De Paola
The Tale of the Pie & the Patty Pan – Beatrix Potter
Growing Vegetable Soup – Lois Ehler
Eating The Alphabet – Lois Ehler
Stone Soup – many different versions of this folk tale, but try the one by Marcia Brown
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
The Poky Little Puppy – Janette Sebring Lowrey
The Tawny Scrawny Lion – Kathryn Jackson
Birthday Soup (a short story in the book, Little Bear) – Else Holmelund Minarik
If You Give a Mouse A Cookie series – Laura Joffe Numeroff
First Book Of Sushi – Amy Wilson Sanger
Yum Yum Dim Sum! – Amy Wilson Sanger
Mama Provi and The Pot of Rice – Sylvia Rosa-Casanova
The Little House On The Prarie series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Chocolate Fever -Robert Kimmel Smith
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Boxcar Children series – Gertrude Chandler Warner
How to Eat Fried Worms – Thomas Rockwell
Amelia Bedelia series – Peggy Parish
A Day At An Indian Market – Catherine Chambers
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog! -Mo Willems
Chicken Soup With Rice – Maurice Sendak
In the Night Kitchen – Maurice Sendak
Goldilocks & The Three Bears
The Little Red Hen
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? – Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
Pinkalicious – Victoria Kann & Elizabeth Kann
Thunder Cake – Patricia Polacco
Curious George Makes Pancakes – H.A. Rey
Fanny at Chez Panisse – Alice Waters
How My Parents Learned to Eat – Ina Friedman
Bread and Jam For Frances – Russell & Lillan Hoban
Allie the Allergic Elephant – Nicole Smith & Maggie Nichols
Potluck – Anne Shelby
and of course, the many wonderful children’s poetry books by Shel Silverstein!!
On a sidenote: For the past 2-years, I’ve actually grown quite tickled reading cookbooks like literature. It’s really the most fulfilling, fascinating, and enriching experience anyone could ever have. I highly recommend it. 😉
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