Our Library Celebrates
National School Lunch Week!

October 15-19, 2007

 

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In October we celebrate our cafeterias and
all they do for us. For some more fun...

Check out one of these reading treats…

 

Chefs d’ Jour

E S                Chato's kitchen.  Gary Soto.  To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares  all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.

 

E T                The cafeteria lady from the Black Lagoon.  Thaler, Mike.  Kids are spreading rumors about what a horrible cook the new cafeteria lady is, so everyone is expecting the most disgusting lunch possible, but when they sit down to eat, they find a pleasant surprise.

 

Fic DAD        Cupid doesn’t flip hamburgers.  Dadey, Debbie.  The Bailey School kids decide to investigate when it appears that the new cook in the school cafeteria might really be Cupid.

 

 

Appetizers

 

E B                 Pickle things.   Brown, Marc Tolon.  Describes, in rhymed  text and illustrations, all the many things that a pickle isn't.

 

Soups

 

398.2 Bro      Stone soup : an old tale.   Brown, Marcia.  When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set  out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town  enjoys a feast.

 

E L                Mouse soup.  Lobel, Arnold.  A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.

 

398.2 ZEM    Nail soup, a Swedish folk tale.  Zemach, Harve.  Another version of the French folktale “Stone Soup”.

 

E O                Button soup.  Orgel, Doris.  In  this modern version of the French folktale "Stone Soup," Rag-Tag Meg shows the neighborhood how to make a delicious  pot of soup while starting with only water and an old wooden button.

 

Fic CRE         Granny Torrelli makes soup.  Creech, Sharon.  With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

 

 

 

  

Entrees for Breakfast

 

E C                Pancakes, pancakes!  Carle, Eric.  By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

 

E E                 Pancakes, crackers, and pizza : a book about shapes. Eberts, Marjorie.  The things that Eddie loves to eat all come in different shapes. Includes a word list.

 

E F                Mr. Wolf’s pancakes. Fearnley, Jan.  Mr. Wolf asks some of his neighbors to help him make pancakes, and even though they all rudely refuse, when the pancakes are done they expect to share the feast.

 

E S                 Green eggs and ham.  Seuss, Dr.  In verse, Sam-I-am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham.

 

E A                Bread and honey. Asch, Frank.  Ben paints a picture of his mother, with a little help from Owl, Rabbit, Alligator, Elephant, Lion, and Giraffe.

 

E B                The Berenstain bears and the missing honey.  Berenstain, Stan.   Sister Bear,Brother Bear, Cousin Fred, and his hound Snuff search for  the thief who stole Papa Bear's blackberry honey.

 

E D                Jamberry.  Degan, Bruce.  A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry-picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland.

 

E H               Bread and jam for Frances. Hoban, Russell. Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam  at every meal until--to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

 

E M                Our raspberry jam.  Marx, David F. A girl feasts on the wonderful raspberry jam that she and her family have made and remembers that she loves it because they made it together.

 

Entrees for Lunch or Dinner

 

398.2 HAR     Jack and the giant : a story full of beans.  Harris, Jim.  A Southwestern version of the traditional tale, in which a boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk and uses his quick wits to outsmart the giant cattle rustler Wild Bill Hiccup.

 

E C                A pipkin of pepper. Cooper, Helen.  While making pumpkin soup,  three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the  salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.

 

E D                The enormous potato.  Davis, Aubrey.   A farmer's  family helps him dig a large potato out of the ground so  they can use it to feed the town.

 

E E                Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Barrett, Judi.  Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the  worse.

 

E K                Stan the hot dog man.  Kessler, Ethel.  After he retires, Stan becomes a hot  dog man and finds that his new job helps him come to the  rescue during a big snowstorm.

 

E G                More Spaghetti, I say!  Rita Golden Gelman.  Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti--all day, in all ways--to play with her friend Freddie.

 

E R               Curious George and the pizza. Margaret Rey.   Curious George creates havoc in a pizza shop but redeems himself by making an unusual delivery.

       

E R                Mama Provi and the pot of rice.   Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia.  Mama Provi takes chicken and rice to her sick granddaughter Lucy who lives upstairs.

 

E S                Too many tamales!  Soto, Gary.  Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

 

Fic DAH        James and the giant peach.  Dahl, Roald.   A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he  meets inside a giant peach.

 

E W               Heckedy Peg.  Audrey Wood.  A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.

 

Fic ROC        How to eat fried worms. Rockwell, Thomas.  Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

 

E P                The hallo-weiner.  Pilkey, Dav.  All the other dogs make fun of Oscar the dachshund until one Halloween when, dressed as a hot dog, Oscar bravely rescues the others.

 

E G                When Vegetables Go Bad.  Gilmore, Don.  Ivy, a little girl who makes up all kinds of excuses for not eating her vegetables, gets the fright of her life when the peas, beans, and carrots she has hidden in her pocket go bad and come after her seeking revenge.

 

E C                 Norma Jean, jumping bean Cole, Joanna.  Norma Jean, whose love of jumping might be a bit excessive, stops her favorite activity after her friends complain, but participation in the school Olympics proves there is a time and place for jumping.

 

Fic BYA          Beans on the roof.  Byars, Betsy Cromer As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a Bean.

 

Fic HOW        The celery stalks at midnight.  Howe, Jame.  Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.

 

E C                I Will Never, Not Ever, Eat a Tomato.  Lauren Child.  A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

 

E L                The Giant Jam Sandwich. Lord, John Vernon. When four million wasps fly into their village, the citizens of Itching Down devise a way of getting rid of them.

 

398.2 AND      The princess and the pea. Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian).   A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

 

398.2 PAR       The enormous turnip.  Parkinson, Kathy.  One of Grandfather's turnips grows to such an enormous size that the whole family including the dog, cat, and mouse try in vain to pull it up.

 

E C            Norma Jean, jumping bean.  Cole, Joanna.  Norma Jean, whose love of jumping might be a bit excessive, stops her favorite activity after her friends complain, but participation in the school Olympics proves there is a time and place for jumping.

 

E K            The carrot seed. Krauss, Ruth.  Despite everyone's dire predictions, a littleboy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.

 

E M           Broccoli-flavored bubble gum.  McGivern, Justin.  A young boy's inventions of new food combinations, such as broccoli-flavored bubble gum, cauliflower cookies, and carrot candy, bring him fame and fortune.

 

E R            The talking turnip.  Rose, Anne K.  When a turnip, cat, spoon, and floor speak to her, an old woman runs off to tell the king.

 

E S             There is a carrot in my ear, and other noodle tales.  Schwartz, Alvin. A collection of six stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, Europe, and Asia Minor.

 

 E S          The trouble with cauliflower.  Jane Sutton.  Sadie must convince her friend Mortimer that eating cauliflower will not bring him bad luck.

 

 

 

 

Drinks

 

E F                 Purple pickle juice. Farber, Erica.   Thistle Howl desperately wants to grow, but drinking  purple pickle juice doesn't help and her aunt's magic makes  Thistle think that maybe she's content just as she is.

 

E H              Aunt Flossie's hats (and crab cakes later).  Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald.   Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.

 

E R               Mr. Putter and Tabby pour the tea. Rylant, Cynthia. Old Mr. Putter gets an elderly cat named Tabby to share his English muffins and tea, listen to his stories, and keep him company while he works in his flower garden.

 

E V              Lemonade stand.  Vaughan, Marcia K.  Two animal friends plan to make money at their lemonade stand, but find that selling can be thirsty work.

 

E W             The lemon drop jar.  Widman, Christine Barker. A little girl makes a winter visit to her great-aunt, who brings out her lemon drop jar to brighten the gray day, stimulating family memories.

 

Fic Blu         Freckle juice.  Blume, Judy.  Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

 

Fic Cor        The lemonade trick.  Corbett, Scott.  A mysterious potion mixed by Kerby with his chemistry set has a beneficial effect on the neighborhood bully, but also wreaks havoc at the Sunday School pageant.

 

Fic DAD        Dracula doesn't drink lemonade.  Dadey, Debbie.  The Bailey
                      School kids' new guidance counselor, Mr. Drake, dresses in black,
                      has an accent, chalky white skin, hands cold as ice, pointed teeth,
                      and he hates bright light. Could he be the infamous king of the
                      vampires?

 

 

Fruit and Dessert

 

E H                The Apple Pie Tree. Hall, Zoe. Describes an apple tree as it grows leaves and flowers and then produces its fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. Includes a recipe for apple pie.

 

E N                Sweet Strawberries. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. A wife and her grumpy husband go to market.

 

E W               The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear.  Wood, Don.  Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.

 

E H                The day the teacher went bananas.  Howe, James.  A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla.

 

E M               Blueberries for Sal.  McCloskey, Rober.  Little Sal and Little Bear both lose  their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

 

E K                Chocolatina.  Erik Kraft.  Tina eats so much chocolate that she wakes up one morning and finds that she has turned to chocolate.

 

E K              Choco-Louie.  Kindley, Jeffrey.  Louie's older brother bets his new skateboard that Louie can't go an entire week without eating any chocolate.

 

Fic DAH      Charlie and the chocolate factory.   Dahl, Roald.  Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

 

Fic Smi        Chocolate fever.  Smith, Robert Kimmel. From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.

 

Fic WAR      The chocolate sundae mystery. Warner, Gertrude Chandler.
                    The  Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items
                    star disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.

Fic DEL       Cookies and crutches.  Judy Delton.  Molly can't wait for the Pee Wee
                     Scouts meeting, today the troop is going to bake cookies, and next week
                     is the big skating party. But Molly has never baked or skated, will she
                     earn a badge, or not?

E T                Halloween Pie.  Tunnell, Michael O.  Old Witch smiles a crooked smile and makes a Halloween pie for vampire and ghoul and ghost and banshee to enjoy.

 

E L               Froggy bakes a cake.  London, Jonathan.  Froggy, insisting on doing things his own way, makes a big mess trying to help his father prepare to celebrate his mother's birthday.

 

E P              Thunder cake. Polacco, Patricia. Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

 

Fic SAC         Marvin Redpost : a flying birthday cake?  Sachar, Louis.  Two
                       days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing like a flying birthday
                       cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a
                       mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior.

FIC DAD         Ninjas don't bake pumpkin pies.  Debbie Dadey. The Bailey School
                        Kids investigate to see if the town's new baker is a ninja who intends
                       to steal Japanese art.

E A                 Popcorn.  Asch, Frank.  Sam Bear invites his friends to an impromptu Halloween party and asks them to bring a treat.

 

E T                The popcorn dragon.  Thayer, Jane. Though his hot breath is the envy of all the other animals, a young dragon learns that showing off does not make friends.

 

 

 

 

    

Other Related Delicacies...

E H                A spoon for every bite.  Hayes, Joe.  A poor husband and wife ask their rich neighbor to be godfather of their child, and once they are compadres, prey upon his pride and extravagance to trick him out of his fortune.

 

641.5 DAH      Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.   Illustrated by Quentin Blake.   An illustrated collection of recipes inspired by the stories of Roald  
 Dahl. (great illustrations, real recipes taken from all Dahl's books)

 

This list was compiled by the librarians from Hedrick Elementary School,

McKinley Elementary School, and Wilson Jr. High School.