More fun "food" books for storytimes that didn't quite make the cut for my Food Science programming this year!
This is the "interesting but ultimately unrelated" round of eliminations.
First off:
Secret Pizza Party
Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
ISBN: 9780803739475
This is a thematic sequel of sorts to Dragons Love Tacos, but it's a perfectly fine stand-alone book. This raccoon, occasionally decked out in classic spy gear (trench coat, vaguely fedora-ish hat) just wants pizza, and he tries his hardest to steal everyone's slices, but the people in town are too smart for him, and now he's pining away for lack of gooey delicious pizza. The cure for a mopey raccoon? Throw a Secret Pizza Party for him, and let him crash his own party and steal his own pizza! Well, until he gets a bit carried away again. Cute story, really cute illustrations, just not quite what I want for this program.
How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?
Wendell Minor
ISBN: 9780399246845
This is just an odd little book. The author starts with pumpkin-weighing contests at country fairs, and moves pretty quickly into straight imagination, with some weird, garish, overdramatic, and occasionally fairly creepy illustrations. He envisions pumpkins as large as hot-air balloons, acting as lighthouses for ships, standing in the lineup at Mount Rushmore, and lurking menacingly at the end of the Grand Canyon. I like the idea, but I really do worry about giving my little ones pumpkin-related nightmares! I've considered it before for fall, halloween, and pumpkin themes, but I've always wimped out at the last minute.
The Honeybee Man
Lela Nargi, illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker
ISBN: 9780375849800
I was sad that I couldn't quite make this fit. I'm planning a bee-themed storytime eventually, specifically so I can use this book. This sweet old dude keeps bees on the top of his apartment building in the city, and he carefully tends them, knows their habits, and keeps them safe as much as he can - and then harvests their honey and gives it away to his neighbors to remind people of how useful (and necessary) bees actually are. The actual factual info is well-incorporated into the story, and there is a lovely nonfiction spread at the end with a great overview. The endpapers also have cutaway or cross-sectional black-and-white scientific drawings of bees and bee-related objects. Very excellent book.
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