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.