The engaging layout and
conversational tone featured in these vibrant, refreshing books will
have kids feeling more like they’ve gone on a field trip than read a
book! Each fact-filled book in this standout series focuses on a
different type of food and explains how that food benefits our bodies,
where the food comes from, how it is grown or made and the forms in
which we eat it. Tons of healthy and nutritious lunchbox and snack ideas
with lots of kid appeal are presented and foods from different countries
and cultures are featured. Web links, including Mypyramid.gov, are
sprinkled throughout. Each book ends with a fun quiz, glossary, index,
and notes for teachers and parents. Library binding, 32 pages. Ages
7-12.
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With real-life photos, this nonfiction, informational book shows us that
when we eat our vegetables, we might be eating the root, the stem, the
leaves, the flower, or even the seeds of a plant. Highlighting carrots,
radishes, beets, asparagus, potatoes, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, sweet
corn, tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, green peas and more... Hardcover, 24 pages. Ages 4-8.
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An Alphabet Salad -
Sarah Shuette
$17.95
Are you hungry? Feast your eyes on
information about your favorite fruits and vegetables in An Alphabet
Salad. Get to know the alphabet in both uppercase and lowercase letters.
At the same time, learn interesting facts about foods that interest
young children. Hardcover Library Edition, 32 pages. Ages 3 and up.More...CS-1683
From the Garden: A
Counting Book About Growing Food
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This book will teach your kids
about numbers from 1-12 and vegetables at the same time! Bright, vivid,
full-color illustrations adorn the pages as simple text leads up to a
delicious ending! 24 pages. Ages 4-8.More...
A delightful folk tale about a
lazy bear and the clever hare that use his wits to bring in a bountiful
harvest for his family. Readers will be delighted by the clever text and
enchanted by the wonderful drawings of bear, hare, and all of their
vegetables. Hardcover, 32 pages. Ages 3-7.More...HB-1529
Fruit & Vegetable
Chartlets
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Colorful photographs for real-world connections.
Cross-curriculum resource guide on back. 17" x 22"
Fruits (CD-6249)......$2.49
Vegetables (CD-6253)......$2.49
What is a Fruit? (MH-36043)......$1.99
What is a Vegetable? (MH-36045)......$1.99
3 Pack Fruit/Vegetable
Frame Puzzle - NEW!
$3.99
Colorful graphics and quality
construction make these Preschool Puzzles a favorite! These 4 to 5-piece
inlaid puzzles offer educational fun and are sold as a 3-pak. Set
includes a vegetable puzzle, fruit puzzle and a treats puzzle. Age: 2-6.
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PT-004
Fruits & Vegetables
Coloring Book
$3.95
This collection of ready to color
illustrations is an excellent introduction to dozens of fruits and
vegetables ranging from the currant, raspberry, and pea to the sweet
potato, cabbage, and watermelon. More...
DV-5430
Cool as a Cucumber
$11.95
Simple words and stunning photography combine in this
delicious book! Young children will enjoy looking at the foods as you
name them. Then you can open the flaps - there's lots more to see and
talk about inside. Hardcover, 17 pages. Ages 2-7.More... IPG-4189
Eating the Alphabet -
Lois Ehlert
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Fruits and vegetables from A-Z.
Vivid collage illustrations of colorful apples, blueberries, carrots,
yams, and zucchini. Ages 3-7.
The Fruit Bowl /
Vegetable Soup - D. Warren, S. Jones, A. Lindman
$14.95
By D. Warren, S. Jones, A.
Sorvaag-Lindman . Two books in one, Vegetable
Soup The Nutritional ABC's and The Fruit Bowl A Contest Among the Fruit
is a fun, informational book on fruits and vegetables....
Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.More...OA-3602
Rookie Read-About
Science Series
$4.95
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Set of 3 Books - $13.95
Each title in this series contains full color photos and
easy to read facts. Includes The Wheat We Eat, Vegetables,
Vegetables!, and It's a Fruit, It's a Vegetable,
It's a Pumpkin! Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.
From perennials to annuals, tuber vegetables to stem vegetables, Gibbons
covers every kind and color that we eat - and shows them in rich
watercolor illustrations. The first half of the book goes through each
of the eight groups of vegetables with every vegetable shown and labeled
within its group, whether it be a root, stem, leaf, bulb, seed, tuber,
fruit, or flower bud vegetable. Ages 4-10. 32 pages.
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Here one hundred of the most
irresistible vegetables are described in depth by organic gardener and
food historian, William Woys Weaver, through history, culinary
suggestions, practical information, and personal anecdotes. Peppers,
potatoes, peas, gourds, onions, tomatoes, greens, and many more veggies
get their stories told - like the Petaluma Gold Rush Bean brought to the
United States from Peru (ideal for everything from bean dips to
cassoulets). Hardcover, 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" 288 pages. For all ages.
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Seeds, Seeds, Seeds by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. Young cub
Buddy gets five colorful bags in the mail from his grandfather, one for
each day. Buddy finds a surprise in each bag, and with each surprise he
discovers something wonderful about seeds. Whether he sorts, collects,
eats or creates with seeds, Buddy has fun! Hardcover, 40 pages. Ages
4-8.
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MC-1595
The Edible Pyramid:
Good Eating Every Day - Loreen Leedy
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Want a fun way to
learn about the food pyramid? With this story, you can take your kids on
a trip to the Edible Pyramid restaurant where you might even learn a
thing or two!32 pages. Ages 4-8.
Welcome to Elmo's World! Elmo says that
eating healthy food is important to help you grow, and that trying new
foods is fun! Explore under the interactive flaps of this book to learn
all about what foods are good for you. Spanish, Board book, 12 pages.More...
RH-5737SP
Taking Root
$4.95
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This colorful, fact-filled book
describes for young readers the physical features of roots and why they
are essential to our environment. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.More...CP-7058
Root Viewer
$9.95
The Root Viewer is a great way to
learn how vegetables grow. It comes with a wooden tube holder, three
plastic root viewers, growing medium, growing journal, growing
instructions and onion, carrot, and radish seeds...all ages.More... TS-2891
In The Garden
$6.95
This book is a wonderful
introduction to natural science for any younger reader. Includes foldout
pages to "look-and-learn" about all sorts of flowers, fruits and
vegetables. Hardcover, 22 pages. Ages 2-8.
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Blue Potatoes, Orange
Tomatoes
$7.95
Tomatoes are red, corn is yellow,
and string beans are green. Or are they? Actually, lots of familiar
foods grow in a rainbow of surprising colors. Imagine trying orange
tomatoes, red popping corn, or purple string beans for a change! This
lively introduction to the joys of organic gardening covers everything
you need to know in order to grow a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables
in unexpected colors - planning, preparing, caring for plants, dealing
with garden pests, and more! Softcover, 40 pages. Ages 4 and up.More...GS-9191
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