Lunch by Denise Fleming

Books like Lunch

By Denise Fleming

For the toddler who announces every bite and every color on the plate, this one turns lunchtime into the whole show. Bright, messy, and gleefully hungry.

Pizza!: A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli

A globe-trotting author digs into the history of pizza, uncovering wild facts along the way — like Sweden's banana-and-peanut pizza and America's 350-slices-a-second habit.

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert

An alphabet journey through fruits and vegetables from around the world, pairing every letter — upper and lowercase — with foods like apricots, artichokes, yams, and zucchini.

I Went Walking by Sue Williams

A boy sets out walking and spots one animal after another, a black cat, a brown horse, a red cow, each one peeking into view before he sees it fully.

Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert

Bold die-cut shapes stack and overlap page after page, transforming circles, squares, and triangles into nine recognizable zoo animal faces right before your eyes.

One, Two, Three!: A Happy Counting Book by Sandra Boynton

A wacky crew of hippos, cats, pigs, and cows count from a quiet One all the way up to a LOUD LOUD LOUD Ten — then back down to quiet One again.

Dinos To Go by Sandra Boynton

Seven quirky dinosaurs — including zooming Zoomer, sleepy Dozy, and weepy Sob — take turns starring in their own tiny tabbed story, each with a personality all its own.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.

Dog Food by Saxton Freymann

Dog Food

Saxton Freymann

The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown

Two pouncy kittens named Brush and Hush mix buckets of paint trying to make green, splashing their way into pink, orange, and purple instead.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

A relentlessly cheerful stranger follows a grumpy skeptic everywhere, asking him to try green eggs and ham in a box, on a train, in the rain — anywhere, everywhere.

Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins

A little fish paddles through the underwater world, meeting all kinds of fish along the way — spotty, stripy, happy, grumpy, hairy, scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly.