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
Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter
Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Children
How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by Connie Liakos Evers, M.S., R.D.
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 Your 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 children to read together:
MyPyramid
The Beastly Feast by Bruce Goldstone
Good Enough to Eat, A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition by Lizzy Rockwell
Grains
Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle
The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
The Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat by Mary Finch
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
The Tortilla Factory by Gary Paulsen
Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven
Fruits and Vegetables
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French
Carrot Seed by Maurice Sendak
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Soup for Supper by Phyllis Root
The Pea Patch Jig by Thacher Hurd
Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
Oliver's Fruit Salad by Vivian French
I Eat Vegetables! by Hannah Tofts
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
I Eat Fruit! by Hannah Tofts
Milk
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
Kiss the Cow by Phyllis Root
Oliver's Milkshake by Vivian French
Milk From Cow to Carton by Aliki
Meat & Beans
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
Two Eggs, Please by Sarah Weeks and Betsy Lewin
Mice and Beans by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Yoko by Rosemary Wells
Snacks
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Pizza Pat by Rita Golden Gelman
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat
Growing Vegetables
Growing Vegetable Soup by 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
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
Foods and Eating
Alphabet Soup by Kate Banks
What a Good Lunch! by Shigeo Watanabe
How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett
D.W. The Picky Eater by Marc Brown
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
Gardening
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and David Small
Who's Garden is it? by Mary Ann Hoberman
How Ground Hog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden by Edith Pattou
Linnes in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson
Lily's Garden by Deborah Kogan Ray
This Year's Garden by Cynthia Rylant
Food Shopping
The Food Market by Peter Spier
The Supermarket by Anne and Harlow Rockwell
Breakfast
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola
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 Marcia Brown
Foods and Counting
Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg
One Grain of Rice (a mathematical folktale) by Demi, adapted by David Barry
Cultural Stories
Fiesta U.S.A. (Hispanic-American folklore) by George Ancona
This is the Way We Eat Our Lunch by Edith Baer
Hand Washing
Wash Your Hands by Tony Ross
Germs Make Me Sick! by Melvin Berger
Being Active
Bearobics by Vic Parker
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
Clap Your Hands by Lorinda B. Cauley
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
Can You Move Like an Elephant? by Judy Hindley
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
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
Feeding Children