Book List
Resource Books for Parents and Care Givers
Feeding Children
Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Children
Children’s Books About Food, Eating, and Health:
Cooking
Fruits & Vegetables
Being Active
Grains
Protein
Foods & Eating
Food Shopping
Breakfast
Food Folklore
Foods & Counting
Cultural Stories
Feeding Children
Child of Mine Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
How to Get Your Kid to Eat…But Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter
Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Children
How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by Connie Liakos Evers, MS, RD
Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers by Debby Cryer, Adele Richardson Ray, and Thelma Harms
The Foods I Eat….The Foods You Eat by Program Developers, Janice M. Hamilton, MS, MBA and Roberta L.Duff, MS, RD
Movement and Activities for Early Childhood by Carol Totsky Hammett
Preschoolers Moving and Learning by Rae Pica with music by Richard Gardzina
Do Carrots Make You See Better? A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood Programs by Julie Appleton, Nadine McCrea, and Carla Patterson
Children’s Books About Food, Eating, and Health for you and your child to read together:
Growing Vegetables
Growing Vegetable Soupby Lois Ehlert
This Year’s Garden by Cynthia Rylert
Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan
Native American Gardening (stories, projects, and recipes for families) by Michael J Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
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Cooking
This Is The Bread I Baked for Ned by Crescent Dragonwagon
My Kitchen by Harlow Rockwell
Cooking With Kids by Caroline Ackerman
My First Kitchen Gadget(series of six) by
Joanne Barkan
Fruits & Vegetables
Soup for Supper by Phyllis Root
The Pea Patch Jig by Thacher Hurd
Apples and pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
Being Active
The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Over, Under & Through by Tana Hoban
Jump Frog, Jump by Byron Barton
My Very First Book of Motion by Eric Carle
Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan
The Berenstain Bears and too much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears and too much TV by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Toddlerobics by Zita Newcome
You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles by Paul Showers
Grains
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
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Protein
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
Foods & Eating
Alphabet Soup by Kate Banks
Gregory, the Terrible Eater By Mitchell Sharmat
What a Good Lunch! By Shigeo Watanabe
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal KaurKhalsa
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett
Food Shopping
The Food Market by Peter Spier (a board book)
The Supermarket by Anne and Harlow Rockwell
Breakfast
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Oh Dear! By Rod Campbell
Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears by Mordicai Gerstein
The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
Food Folklore
Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
Stone Soup by Johm W. Stewig
Foods & Counting
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg
The Rajah’s Rice (a mathematical folklore tale from India) adapted by David Barry
Cultural Stories
Fiesta U.S.A. (Hispanic American folklore) by George Ancona
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Feeding Children
Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Children
Children’s Books About Food, Eating, and Health:
Cooking
Fruits & Vegetables
Being Active
Grains
Protein
Foods & Eating
Food Shopping
Breakfast
Food Folklore
Foods & Counting
Cultural Stories
Feeding Children
Child of Mine Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
How to Get Your Kid to Eat…But Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter
Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Children
How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by Connie Liakos Evers, MS, RD
Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers by Debby Cryer, Adele Richardson Ray, and Thelma Harms
The Foods I Eat….The Foods You Eat by Program Developers, Janice M. Hamilton, MS, MBA and Roberta L.Duff, MS, RD
Movement and Activities for Early Childhood by Carol Totsky Hammett
Preschoolers Moving and Learning by Rae Pica with music by Richard Gardzina
Do Carrots Make You See Better? A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood Programs by Julie Appleton, Nadine McCrea, and Carla Patterson
Growing Vegetables
Growing Vegetable Soupby Lois Ehlert
This Year’s Garden by Cynthia Rylert
Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan
Native American Gardening (stories, projects, and recipes for families) by Michael J Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
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Cooking
This Is The Bread I Baked for Ned by Crescent Dragonwagon
My Kitchen by Harlow Rockwell
Cooking With Kids by Caroline Ackerman
My First Kitchen Gadget(series of six) by
Joanne Barkan
Fruits & Vegetables
Soup for Supper by Phyllis Root
The Pea Patch Jig by Thacher Hurd
Apples and pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
Being Active
The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Over, Under & Through by Tana Hoban
Jump Frog, Jump by Byron Barton
My Very First Book of Motion by Eric Carle
Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan
The Berenstain Bears and too much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears and too much TV by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Toddlerobics by Zita Newcome
You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles by Paul Showers
Grains
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
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Protein
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
Foods & Eating
Alphabet Soup by Kate Banks
Gregory, the Terrible Eater By Mitchell Sharmat
What a Good Lunch! By Shigeo Watanabe
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal KaurKhalsa
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett
Food Shopping
The Food Market by Peter Spier (a board book)
The Supermarket by Anne and Harlow Rockwell
Breakfast
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Oh Dear! By Rod Campbell
Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears by Mordicai Gerstein
The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
Food Folklore
Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
Stone Soup by Johm W. Stewig
Foods & Counting
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg
The Rajah’s Rice (a mathematical folklore tale from India) adapted by David Barry
Cultural Stories
Fiesta U.S.A. (Hispanic American folklore) by George Ancona
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