Let's Eat!

This month's theme for story time is food and eating.  Each week we are focusing on a different type of food including veggies, meat, fruits, and sweets.  Here are some other great picture books to go along with our story times this month.

Badger's Fancy Meal by Keiko Kasza
Badger is bored with the same old meals, but his search for more exciting food only leads to trouble.

Soup for One by Ethan Long
A little fly who anticipates enjoying a big bowl of hot soup is unexpectedly joined by a sequence of interlopers who help themselves to his lunch one by one until their number reaches ten.

Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds
The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.

Hey, Pancakes! by Tamson Weston
The day gets off to a rough start, but soon the smell of pancakes fills the air and a family gathers for a breakfast feast.

Edible Numbers by Jennifer Bass
A colorful and delicious counting book featuring an array of familiar and unfamiliar fruits and vegetables.


More Food Books --
Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman
Before We Eat: From Farm to Tables by Pat Brisson
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Chew, Chew, Gulp! by Lauren Thompson
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by  Judi Barrett
Eat Healthy, Feel Great! by William Sears
Fortune Cookies by A. Bitterman
Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant by April Pulley Sayre
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans by David LaRochelle
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
The Lion's Share by Matthew McElligott
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Me Hungry! by Jeremy Tankard
The Milkman by Carol Corsden
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Felming
On the Farm, At the Market by G. Brian Karas
Peanut Butter & (Jelly) Brains by Joe McGee
Possum Magic by Mem Fox
Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin
Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra
Yuck! by Nick Manning

Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through 28, 2016.

1, 2, 3, Read to Me: Counting Books for Young Children

One of the more popular requests we get at the Children's Desk is for counting books.  Here are some of my favorites . . .

Let's Count Goats by Mem Fox
Encourages counting skills with humorous illustrations of goats.

Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake.

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

The Right Number of Elephants by Jeff Sheppard
A counting book in which a little girl relies on the help of some eager elephants.

Soup for One by Ethan Long
A little fly who anticipates enjoying a big bowl of hot soup is unexpectedly joined by a sequence of interlopers who help themselves to his lunch one by one until their number reaches ten.

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs by Paul Stickland
One by one, ten dinosaurs at play become fewer and fewer as various things happen to them.