Book List

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 

Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle

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

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

The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

Kiss the Cow by Phyllis Root

Oliver's Milkshake by Vivian French

Milk From Cow to Carton by Aliki

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