Book List

Here's a list of some of favorite nutrition, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle books!

Feeding Children

• Child of Mine Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter
• Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
• How to Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter
• Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter

Teaching Nutrition & Physical Activity to Children

• How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by Connie Liakos Evers, M.S., R.D.
• Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers by Debby Cryer, Adele Richardson Ray and Thelma Harms
• The Foods I Eat...The Foods You Eat by Program Developers, Janice M. Hamilton, MS, MBA and Roberta L. Duff, MS, RD
• Movement and Activities for Early Childhood by Carol Totsky Hammett
• Preschoolers Moving and Learning by Rae Pica with music by Richard Gardzina
• Do Carrots Make Your See Better? A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Early Childhood Programs by Julie Appleton, Nadine McCrea and Carla Patterson

Grains 

• The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
• The Popcorn Book by Tomie dePaola
• The Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat by Mary Finch
• Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
• The Tortilla Factory by Gary Paulsen
• Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven
• Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle

Fruits and Vegetables

• I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
• The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
• Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French
• Carrot Seed by Maurice Sendak
• Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
• Soup for Supper by Phyllis Root
• The Pea Patch Jig by Thacher Hurd
• Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
• Oliver's Fruit Salad by Vivian French
• I Eat Vegetables! by Hannah Tofts
• Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
• I Eat Fruit! by Hannah Tofts

Milk

• Kiss the Cow by Phyllis Root
• Oliver's Milkshake by Vivian French
• Milk From Cow to Carton by Aliki
• The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

Protein

• Peanut Butter and Jelly by Nadine Bernard Westcott
  Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
• Two Eggs, Please by Sarah Weeks and Betsy Lewin
• Mice and Beans by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Yoko by Rosemary Wells

Snacks

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Pizza Pat by Rita Golden Gelman
• Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
• Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

Growing Vegetables

• Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
• This Year's Garden by Cynthia Rylert
• Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
• How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan
• Native American Gardening (stories, projects and recipes for families ) by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac

Cooking

• This Is The Bread I Baked for Ned by Crescent Dragonwagon
• My Kitchen by Harlow Rockwell
• Cooking with Kids by Caroline Ackerman
• My First Kitchen Gadget (series of six) by Joanne Barkan

Foods and Eating

• Alphabet Soup by Kate Banks
• What a Good Lunch!  by Shigeo Watanabe
• How Pizza Came to Queens by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judith Barrett
• D.W. The Picky Eater by Marc Brown
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

Gardening

• The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
• The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and David Small
• Who's Garden is it? by Mary Ann Hoberman
• How Ground Hog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry
• Mrs. Spitzer's Garden by Edith Pattou
• Linnes in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson
• Lily's Garden by Deborah Kogan Ray
• This Year's Garden by Cynthia Rylant

Food Shopping

• The Food Market by Peter Spier 
• The Supermarket by Anne and Harlow Rockwell

Breakfast

• Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie de Paola
• Oh Dear! by Rod Campbell
• Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears by Mordicai Gerstein
• The Three Bears by Paul Galdone

Food Folklore

• Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
• Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Foods and Counting

• Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg
• One Grain of Rice (a mathematical folktale) by Demi, adapted by David Barry

Cultural Stories

• Fiesta U.S.A. (Hispanic-American folklore) by George Ancona
• This is the Way We Eat Our Lunch by Edith Baer

Hand Washing

• Wash Your Hands by Tony Ross
• Germs Make Me Sick! by Melvin Berger

Being Active

• Bearobics by Vic Parker
• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
• Clap Your Hands by Lorinda B. Cauley
• Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
• Can You Move Like an Elephant? by Judy Hindley
• The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
• The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
• Over, Under & Through by Tana Hoban
• Jump Frog, Jump by Byron Barton
• My Very First Book of Motion by Eric Carle
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• Toddlerobics by Zita Newcome
• You Can't Make a Move Without Your Muscles by Paul Showers