Books About Food, Cooking, and Picky Eaters
Some of these books will make a kid beg to try something green, and some just make dinner sound like an adventure instead of a negotiation. Either way, food gets a lot more interesting when it's raining meatballs or a caterpillar is eating through everything in sight.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
In a tiny town where every meal falls from the sky, life is delicious until the food weather turns dangerous, growing bigger and wilder…
Green Eggs and Ham
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…
Jamberry
A small boy and a big friendly bear head off on a berry-picking adventure, paddling canoes and crossing bridges through Berryland in search…
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
A little mouse finds one perfect strawberry but worries a big hungry bear will smell it and come take it away, so he hatches a clever plan…
Strega Nona
An old woman known for her magic entrusts her helper with an everfull pasta pot but not its secret verse, so he sets it going alone — and…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger…
Creepy Carrots!
A rabbit who can't resist Crackenhopper Field's fattest carrots starts seeing and hearing them everywhere he goes — and has to figure out if…
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Give a hungry little mouse a cookie and he'll ask for milk, then a mirror, then scissors — one small request tumbling into the next until…
Stone Soup
Three traveling monks arrive in a war-weary village where suspicious neighbors hide their food and shutter their windows — until the monks…
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
A girl and her mummy are just sitting down to tea when the doorbell rings, and a big furry, stripy tiger walks in and eats and drinks…
Tawny Scrawny Lion
A hungry lion chases a different animal every day of the week — until a family of ten fat rabbits teaches him to make carrot stew instead of…
A Bad Case of Stripes
A girl so worried about fitting in that she never admits she loves lima beans wakes up one day covered in stripes that keep changing — and…
