Our very last Summer Reading Program is today. This has been a great year, with some great reads, and great kids and families.
Food Science is interesting - there are a lot of places possible to go with it. Here are some "runners-up" that didn't make the final cut for one reason or another:
I just recently talked about Food For Thought and I still wish I could use it, but it's just too long for my needs.
Next on the chopping block is:
Talia and the Rude Vegetables
Linda Elovitz Marshall, illustrated by Francesca Assirelli
ISBN: 9780761352174
This is a cute read - I've used it in storytime before. Talia is getting ready for the Jewish New Year with her grandmother, and she's out in the garden to find what she THOUGHT her grandmother sent her out for: "rude" vegetables. Along the way, she digs up quite a lot of root veggies, finding a particularly "rude" example each time for her grandmother, and eventually donating the others to the community. Lots of nice touches, and a beautiful message of working hard and sharing, with no specific religious moralizing.
I really wanted to use this next book again, but it just didn't end up fitting in:
Worms for Lunch
Leonid Gore
ISBN: 9780545243384
What do various animals like to eat for lunch? Worms? Not the mouse, nor the cat, or the monkey (bananas for me!) but fish? LOVE worms! An excellent and very quick-moving read illustrating that tastes differ between people (and species), with lots of die-cut pages to lift flaps and reveal hidden characters. I've used this one before as well, and the kids really get a kick out of seeing the various "icky" foods mixed in with standard kid fare like spaghetti and ice cream.
Apple Pie A B C
Alison Murray
ISBN: 9781423136941
People with classically or musically inclined parents will remember the standard Apple Pie A B C rhyme, most likely in the nearly immortal A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway. Here we have a pop-art mid-century standard to set beside it, featuring a persistent beagle that is quite reminiscent of Snoopy. The poor pooch is thwarted at every letter of the alphabet from getting to that apple pie, but he perseveres (the letter P) and eventually manages to slide it off the table and eat it all up, falling into a satisfied slumber on an easy-chair afterwards. Delightful, and fun to read and look at the bright happy illustrations, but not quite a match for my program needs this time around.
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