Silly Eats

For Preschoolers

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Brave Potatoes by Toby Speed.
RC 51597
Potatoes set off across the darkened fair grounds to enjoy the rides, but Hackemup the chef has other plans for them. For grades K-3.

Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells.
BR 51196
Max makes an earthworm cake for Grandma's birthday and helps Ruby with her angel surprise cake. At the store, the grocer can't read all of the shopping list, until Max solves the problem by drawing a picture. Print/Braille. For preschool-grade 1.

Chato’s Kitchen by Gary Soto.
RC 41971
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. For grades K-3.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett.
BR 50567 or LP 50138 or RC 50751
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. For grades K-3.

Crunch Munch by Jonathan London.
BR 51190 or LP 1099 or WOD 500
A rhythmic description of the different ways in which various animals eat, from a frog eating flies to a cat lapping milk. Board book. For preschoolers.

Father’s Flying Flapjacks by Else Holmelund Minarik.
LP 1098
Little Bear and Father Bear make their famous flying flapjacks for Mother Bear. Board book. For preschoolers.

Froggy Eats Out by Jonathan London.
BR 51175
After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary. Print/Braille. For preschool-grade 1.

The Giant Carrot by Jan Peck.
RC 47131
Little Isabelle surprises her family with her unique way of helping a carrot seed grow and of getting the huge vegetable from the ground. Includes a recipe for carrot pudding. For grades K-3.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
BR 8956 or BR 13450 or BR 50772 or RC 34056
Nonsense rhyme about a delightful creature named Sam-I-Am, and his efforts to get another to eat green eggs and ham. Print/Braille. For preschool-grade 2.

Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat.
BR 5604 or LP 1093
Gregory's parents worry about their son because he is no ordinary goat. Instead of enjoying tin cans, rugs, and bottle caps, Gregory dreams of pigging out on such junky foods as fruits, vegetables, eggs, bread, and butter. For preschool-grade 2.

The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back by Carl Sandburg.
BR 12050
After the popcorn the Huckabucks had raised explodes in a fire and Pony Pony Huckabuck finds a silver buckle inside a squash, the family decides it is time for a change. For grades K-3.

Hungry Hen by Richard Waring.
BR 14029
A greedy fox watches a hungry hen grow bigger every day. The fox thinks the longer he waits, the bigger the hen will be. But he waits a little too long. Print/Braille. For preschool-grade 2.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff.
BR 8934 or BR 51055 or RC 26192
When a small boy offers a passing mouse a cookie, the mouse asks for a glass of milk, then a straw, then a look in a mirror, then a haircut, and a whole series of activities that end, of course, with a cookie. For preschool-grade 2.

Inch by Inch: The Garden Song by David Mallett.
RC 43794
Inch by inch, row by row, a child grows a garden with the help of the rain and the earth. For preschool-grade 2.

Lunch with Milly by Jeanne Modesitt.
RC 41140
One day a little girl invites her friend Milly for lunch, but she forgets to make dessert. Soon she and Milly are off on a magical trip to collect the ingredients. For preschool-grade 2.

More Spaghetti, I Say by Rita G. Gelman.
LP 50022
Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti--all day, in all ways--to play with her friend Freddie. For preschool-grade 2.

Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel.
BR 4672 or LP 996 or RC 12227
A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup. For preschool-grade 2.

Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems about the Fun of Eating by Nadine Bernard Westcott.
RC 39647
A collection of poems and traditional rhymes about food and eating, including “Celery Raw, Develops the Jaw” and “Swallow a Slug.” For grades K-3.

One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes.
LP 1091
One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies. They stop to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, causing them to lose both time and food in the end. For preschool-grade 2.

Pizza Kittens by Charlotte Voake.
BR 51203 or LP 899
Kittens Lucy, Joe, and Bert prefer pizza to peas. For preschool-grade 2.

The Popcorn Book by Tomie De Paola.
BR 50550 or LP 50136
Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes. For grades K-3.

Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss.
BR 8944 or RC 35120
Peter T. Hooper is sick and tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same—simply because they are always made from the eggs of a hen. So, off he goes on a worldwide expedition, gathering eggs of twiddler owls, stroodels, and long-legger kwongs, pelfs, and single-file zummzian zuks, and a host of other birds to make Scrambled Eggs Super-dee-Dooper-dee-Booper Special de luxe a-la-Peter T. Hooper. For grades K-3.

Silly Tilly’s Thanksgiving Dinner by Lillian Hoban.
LP 1006
Forgetful Silly Tilly Mole nearly succeeds in ruining her Thanksgiving dinner, but her animal friends come to the rescue with tasty treats. For grades K-3.

The Story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman.
RC 45232
Revised version of the story of a little boy in India who loses his fine clothes to vain and bullying tigers. But Babaji has the last laugh when he eats the melted tigers as “ghi” on his pancakes. For preschool-grade 2.

Tiger Soup, an Anansi Story from Jamaica by Frances Temple.
RC 39838
After tricking Tiger into leaving the soup he has been cooking, Anansi the spider eats the soup himself and manages to put the blame on the monkeys. For preschool-grade 2.

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg.
BR 12010
When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety. For preschool-grade 5.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
BR 6130 or BR 12015 or LP 1089 or RC 24609
A hungry caterpillar eats holes through plums, cheese, sausage, and other food and gets a stomach ache. Then something wonderful happens to the fat caterpillar. Print/Braille. For grades K-2.

We’ll Have a Friend for Lunch by Jane Flory.
BR 3036
Peaches the cat and her friends plan and scheme to eat a family of robins. In the meantime, however, they make friends with the robins and find they can no longer even think of eating a family they know. For grades K-3.

The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza.
RC 50869
A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results. For preschool-grade 2.