Silly Eats

Books for Readers in the Primary Grades

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Beetles Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
BR 12391 or BR 50219 or RC 48783.
Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his know-it-all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them on unaware friends and family. For grades 3-6.

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.

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.

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume.
BR 2350 or BR 9664 or RC 55310.
Andrew is so envious of Nicky’s beautiful freckles that he pays five weeks’ allowance for a secret freckle-juice recipe. For grades 2-4.

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.

How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman.
RC 23230.
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating. For grades 2-4.

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.
BR 8593 or LP 117 or RC 33534.
Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal. For grades 3-6.

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.

It’s Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History by James Solheim.
RC 46925.
A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical. For grades 2-4.

It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles by Jack Prelutsky.
RC 52558.
A collection of humorous poems such as "The Dancing Hippopotami," "You Can't Make Me Eat That," "My Father's Name is Sasquatch," and "Dear Wumbledeedumble." For grades 2-4.

My Life Among the Aliens by Gail Gauthier.
BR 11351 or LP 827.
Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother’s unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens who keep showing up at their house. For grades 3-6.

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.

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.

There Is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Noodle Tales by Alvin Schwartz.
BR 7330 or LP 1043.
A collection of six stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, Europe, and Asia Minor. For grades 2-4.

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 grades K-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.

What You Never Knew about Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks by Patricia Lauber.
RC 49851.
Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners. For grades 2-4.

What’s Cooking, Jenny Archer? by Ellen Conford.
LP 1095 or RC 42566.
When Jenny Archer gets fed up with school meals, she decides to bring her own lunch. A television program inspires her to become a creative cook, and the results attract the attention of her schoolmates. One by one, they offer to pay Jenny to make their lunches, too. For grades 2-4.