Appendix A Selected Books for Preschoolers and Kindergarten LESSON 1 - MYPLATE Featured Book: Beastly Feast - This colorfully illustrated and rhyming book is a great way to introduce the general concept of foods. The theme is, The beasts are having a feast! Animals from everywhere come with tasty food to share. The bears, parrots, antelope, mosquitoes, bees, and more each bring their favorite foods to the feast. Some of the foods will be familiar to children such as pears, carrots, burritos, and rice. But perhaps they will be introduced to new foods such as knishes or other beastly favorites! Author: Bruce Goldstone ISBN# 0-8050-6709-4 Eating the Alphabet - Fruits and Vegetables from A-Z This colorful book beautifully displays fruits and vegetables for each letter of the alphabet. The artwork emphasizes the real variety of fruits and vegetables available for a healthy diet. Author: Lois Ehlert ISBN# 0-8172-8060-X Stone Soup - This story is a lovely retelling of an old tale. The subject matter of sharing and rebuilding a community not only teaches children to love their neighbors, but it also reminds adults to live in harmony. Food really does bring people together. Author: Jon J. Muth ISBN# 0-4393-3909-X Spanish ISBN# 0-9625-1624-4 D.W. The Picky Eater - D.W. would never eat liver in a million years, and she won't touch all kinds of vegetables. More than anything else in the world, she hates spinach, or so she thinks. Author: Marc Brown ISBN# 0-3161-1048-5 Spanish ISBN# 1-9303-3242-4 University of California Cooperative Extension Page 1
LESSON 2 - VEGETABLE GROUP Featured Book: Growing Vegetable Soup - Brightly colored collage illustrations reveal a story of a father and child who plant a vegetable garden. They dig holes, plant seeds, pull weeds, pick the vegetables, and prepare the best soup ever. Children learn the steps to gardening and how plants grow. Author: Lois Ehlert ISBN# 0-15-232580-8 I Will Never NOT Ever Eat a Tomato - This funny look at how children's tastes can be based more on preconception than taste buds is sure to introduce humor into the daily meal time. Author: Lauren Child ISBN# 0-7636-2180-3 Tops & Bottoms - A wealthy bear is tricked by a clever but hungry hare into sharing his wealth. The book shows an array of healthy vegetables that are the tops and bottoms of vegetable plants. Author: Janet Stevens ISBN# 0-1529-2851-0 Eat Your Peas, Louise! - Louise's brother tries to get her to eat peas and has all sorts of reasons why she should. Even young children can relate to the underlying theme of this book. Author: Peegan Snow ISBN# 0-5160-2067-6 Spanish ISBN# 0-5163-2067-X Page 2 University of California Cooperative Extension
LESSON 3 - FRUIT GROUP Featured Book: Lunch - A very hungry mouse peeks out of his hole and sniffs LUNCH! As he nibbles and crunches his way through lunch, children can guess which fruit or vegetable he ll eat next. The bold illustrations reveal a colorful array of fruits and vegetables. Author: Denise Fleming ISBN# 0-8050-4646-1 The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Hungry Bear - What's a little, strawberry loving mouse going to do to keep a big, hungry, strawberry loving bear from eating his fruit? The beautiful illustrations and rhyming verse add to the fun of this classic book. Author: Audrey Wood ISBN# 0-88595-3182-1 Oliver s Fruit Salad Oliver tells his mom that his grandfather grows the most delicious fruit, but when she buys it he won t eat it. His clever grandparents get Oliver to help make a delicious fruit salad. Will he try it? Author: Vivian French ISBN# 0531300870 Handa s Surprise - Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend, Akeyo as a surprise. As she carries the basket on her head she contemplates which fruit Akeyo will like the best. Thanks to some hungry animals, it s Handa who is in for a surprise. Author: Eileen Browne ISBN# 0-7636-0863-7 Spanish ISBN# 9-8025-7196-2 University of California Cooperative Extension Page 3
LESSON 4 - GRAIN GROUP Featured Book: Bread, Bread, Bread - Take a trip around the world and explore various cultures and the bread they eat. What kind of bread do you eat? A bagel? A tortilla? A baguette? All over the world, wherever there are human beings, someone is eating bread. This book celebrates the many different kinds of bread and how it is enjoyed all over the world. Author: Ann Morris ISBN# 0-590-46036-6 The Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat - The Little Red Hen works hard to turn her wheat seed into flour, without any help from her lazy friends. When they smell the fresh bread baking, they all are eager to help her eat it! Author: Mary Finch ISBN# 1-8414-8234-X Spanish ISBN# 1-8414-8087-8 The Tortilla Factory - This simple poem describes how corn is harvested and made into tortillas. The warm-toned paintings carefully illustrate all of the steps to the creating a delicious tortilla. Author: Gary Paulsen ISBN# 0-1520-1698-8 Spanish ISBN# 0-1520-1714-3 Sun Bread - The baker misses the sun so much that she mixes some dough, then kneads and shapes it into a warm, round, golden sun bread. When the animals eat it, they not only stop grumbling, they begin to rise! Author: Elisa Kleven ISBN# 0-5254-6674-6 Page 4 University of California Cooperative Extension
LESSON 5 - PROTEIN GROUP Featured Book: Two Eggs, Please The concepts of same and different are interwoven in this fun and colorful story. Everyone who visits the diner wants two eggs. But they each want their eggs prepared differently. Some want their eggs scrambled, others want theirs hard or soft boiled, fried or poached, sunny-side up or over-easy. Author: Sarah Weeks ISBN# 0-689-83196-X Peanut Butter & Jelly - A favorite play on rhyme takes on super-duper proportions as two children create a table-sized sandwich from scratch. Author: Nadine Bernard Westcott ISBN# 0-1405-4852-1 Green Eggs and Ham - In this classic Dr. Suess book Sam-I-Am is determined to convince the other characters to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. Would you like them is a house? Would you like them with a mouse? asks Sam-I-am. The main character is very persistent that he dose not like green eggs and ham. Will the pestering Sam-I-am get to him? Will he ever try green eggs and ham? Author: Dr. Suess ISBN# 0-3948-0016-8 Spanish ISBN# 0-7857-9188-4 Yoko - A thoughtful teacher, a hungry friend, and International Food Day solve little Yoko's dilemma when her classmates begin making fun of her sushi lunch. Author: Rosemary Wells ISBN# 0-7868-0395-9 University of California Cooperative Extension Page 5
LESSON 6 - DAIRY GROUP Featured Book: Kiss the Cow - Mama May has so many children she couldn t count them all. Annalisa, the most stubborn and curious of the bunch, disobeys her mother and milks the magic cow. Annalisa does not kiss the cow afterward, which is required for further milk production. Will the whole family have to live without milk and cheese forever? Or will Annalisa s strong curiosity get the best of her? Author: Phyllis Root ISBN# 0-7636-2003-3 Oliver s Milkshake - Oliver learns where milk comes from and has an exciting time getting ingredients for his scrummy~yummy~fruity~frothy milk shake. Author: Vivian French ISBN# 0-3407-5454-0 ISBN# 0-0644-5111-9 Spanish ISBN# 8-4261-2757-6 Click, Clack, Moo - The cows on Farmer Brown's farm have discovered a typewriter. Soon, they're leaving notes for him demanding blankets to keep warm. But when he refuses to give in, they go on strike. Can a solution be found to return the cows to work? Author: Doreen Cronin ISBN# 0-6898-3213-3 Milk-From Cow to Carton - Aliki takes readers on a guided tour that begins with grazing cows, proceeds through milking and a trip to the dairy, and ends with some other foods made from milk. Author: Aliki Page 6 University of California Cooperative Extension
LESSON 7 - SNACK GROUP Featured Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar - A caterpillar hatches out of his egg and is very hungry. He eats his way through a variety of foods that are colorfully illustrated. The story progresses until, full at last, the caterpillar spins a cocoon and wakes up a butterfly. This classic book will help preschoolers learn the days of the week, how to count, as well as how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly all through the use of yummy snack foods. Author: Eric Carle ISBN# 0-399-22690-7 Spanish ISBN# 0-3992-1933-1 Gregory, the Terrible Eater - A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice. What will his parents do? Author: Mitchell Sharmat ISBN# 0-5904-3350-4 Bread and Jam for Frances - Frances only wants to eat her favorite foods-bread and jam. When her mother gives her only bread and jam for every meal, Frances becomes tired of her favorite foods and wants to eat a variety of foods. Author: Russell Hoban ISBN# 0-0644-3096-0 Spanish ISBN# 0-0644-3403-6 Pizza Pat - Set to the familiar rhythm and cumulative rhyme pattern of "This Is the House That Jack Built", this beginning reader describes the sloppy cheese, spicy sausages, gloppy sauce, and floppy dough that are cooked into a pizza and enjoyed by dozens of mice, much to the cook's great disappointment. Author: Rita Golden Gelman ISBN# 0-6798-9134-X University of California Cooperative Extension Page 7
LESSON 8 - KIDS ON THE MOVE! Featured Book: From Head to Toe - From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with the animals. Author: Eric Carle ISBN# 0-0644-3596-2 Bearobics - In this funny counting book, a shaggy bear turns on his boom box and all the animals begin to boogie, jump, jive, shake, and slide. The playful illustrations and book design support the movement theme. Children will be swooshing and swinging to this lively story. Author: Vic Parker ISBN# 0-1405-6494-2 Clap Your Hands - Little ones will jump at the chance to join the animals and children as they stomp, wiggle, roar, and spin their way through the day. Author: Lorinda B. Cauley ISBN# 0-3992-2118-2 Spanish ISBN# 0-7398-0843-5 Barnyard Dance - Everybody can sing along because it s time to do-si-do in the backyard with a crew of farm animals. Author: Sandra Boynton ISBN# 1-5630-5442-6 Can You Move Like an Elephant? - Have fun moving like animals. Boom! Boom! the elephant goes. Awk! Akw! The peacock cries, swishing her tail from side to side. Can you move like that? Author: Judy Hindley ISBN# 0-7641-2586-9 Page 8 University of California Cooperative Extension
LESSON 9 - WASH YOUR HANDS! Featured Book: Wash Your Hands - The Little Princess is constantly being reminded to wash her hands! She is told to wash her hands after playing outside, frolicking with the dog, using the potty, and sneezing. She is told to wash her hands before she eats her cake. She demands to know why! She is told that the germs and nasties will make her sick. The colorful artwork and fun illustrations make the book a great way to introduce children to the importance of hand washing. Author: Tony Ross ISBN# 1-929132-01-8 Germs on Their Fingers - Read the story about differences between good germs and bad germs in English then flip it over and begin again in Spanish. Author: Wendy Wakefield Ferrin ISBN# for both English and Spanish 0-9703-6320-6 Germs Make Me Sick - An introduction to bacteria and viruses combines charts and diagrams with humorous text and colorful illustrations and explains how the body fights against germ invasion. Author: Melvin Berger ISBN# 0-0644-5154-2 Germs! Germs! Germs! - A rhyming story that introduces young children to germs and where they live, from food left out of the refrigerator to the inside of the body. Author: Bobbi Katz ISBN# 0-5906-7295-9 Spanish ISBN# 0-4390-8700-7 University of California Cooperative Extension Page 9