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How to Eat for a Healthy Lifestyle
Book List for Kids
Adopted from the Resource List provided from the Food & Nutrition Information Center’s website. All books are listed in alphabetical order.
KIDS IN THE KITCHEN
American Heart Association Kid’s Cookbook: All Recipes Made by Real Kids in Real Kitchens
Age: 6-12 years
Better Homes & Gardens New Junior Cookbook
Jennifer Dorland Darling
Age: 9-12 years
Cook and Learn: Nutritious Foods from Various Cultures
Thelma Harms
Age: 4-8 years
Cup Cooking: Individual Child-Portion Picture Recipes
Barbara Johnson Foote
Age: 3 and up
Dinner From Dirt
Emily Scott and Catherine Duffy
Age: 7-12 years
The Fannie Farmer Junior Cookbook
Joan Scobey
Age: 9-12 years
A Good Soup Attracts Chairs: A First African Cookbook for American Kids
Fran Osseo-Asare
Age: 9-12 years
The Healthy Body Cookbook
Joan D’Amico & Karen Drummond
Age: 9-12 years
Healthy Snacks for Kids
Penny Warner
Age: 6-10 years
The Healthy Start Kid’s Cookbook
Sandra Nissenberg, R.D.
Age: 6-10 years
Hey Kids You’re Cookin’ Now: A Global Awareness Cooking Adventure
Dianne Pratt
Age: 9-12 years |
Holidays of the World Cookbook for Students
Lois Sinaiko Webb
Age: 8-12 years
Honest Pretzels: And 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Cooks Ages 8 and Up
Mollie Katzen
Age: 8-12 years
Just for Kids: A Cookbook
Jen Bays Avis and Kathy F. Ward
Age: 6-10 years
A Kid’s Cookbook
Carol Kurzweg
Age: 9-12 years
The Mother Goose Cookbook:Rhymes and Recipes for the Very Young
Marianna Mayer
Age: 4-8 years
My Measuring Cup
Joanne Barkan and Jody Wheeler
Age: 2 and up
Pancakes, Pancakes!
Eric Carle
Age: Baby-Preschool.
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: a Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
Mollie Katzen
Age: 3-8 years
Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents
Sandra Nissenberg, R.D., Margaret Bogle, R.D., and Audrey Wright, R.D.
Age: 7-12 years
Storybook Stew
Suzanne Barchers and Peter Rauen
Age: 5 and up
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FUN WITH FOOD
Food and Nutrition for Every Kid
Janice VanCleave
Age: 8-12 years
Gobble up Math
Sue Mograd & Kelly Kennedy
Age: 5-9 years
Let’s Grow It!
Brenda Walpole
Age: 9-12 years
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking
Sharon McGinley-Nally
Age: 5-8 years
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Ready, Set, Grow! A Kid’s Guide to Gardening
Rebecca Hershey
Age: 5-11 years
The Science Chef: 100 Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids
Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Age: 9-12 years
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Age: 4-8 years |
LEARNING ABOUT FOOD
Bread, Bread, Bread
Ann Morris
Age: 5-8 years
Bread Around The World
Jo Ellen Moore, Gary Shipman
Age: Grades 1-3
Bread is For Eating
Davis Gershator
Age: Preschool
Do Carrots Make You See Better?
Julie Appleton
Age: 4-8 years
Eating:
Gwenyth Swain
Age: 3-8 years
From Farm to Table
Davis Buckwoldt
Age: 6-8 years
From Seed to Pumpkin
Jan Lottke
Age: 4-8 years
From Wheat to Pasta
Robert Egan
Age: 8-12 years. |
Harvest Year
Cris Peterson
Age: 4-8 years
How do Apples Grow?
Betsy Maestro
Age: 5-9 years
How My Family Lives in America
Susan Kuklin
Age: 5-7 years
The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body
Joanna Cole
Age: 4-8 years
My First Kwanzaa Book
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Age: 4-8 years
The Surprise Garden
Zoe Hall
Age: 5-9 years
The Tortilla Factory
Gary Paulsen
Age: 4-8 years
What Food is This?
Rosemarie Hausherr
Age: 5-9 years |
READING FUN
Alphabet Soup
Kate Banks
Age: 4-8 years
Apple Farmer Annie
Monica Wellington
Age: 3-5 years
The Apple Pie Tree
Zac Hall
Age: 3: -8 years
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Age: 4-8 years
The Big Hungry Bear
Don and Audrey Woods
Age: 2-4 years
Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey
Age: Preschool
Bread and Jam for Francis
Russel Hoben
Age: 4-8 years
The Carrot Seed
Ruth Krauss
Age: 3-6 years
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett
Age: 4-8 years
Dumpling Soup
Jama Kim Rattigan
Age: 4-8 years
D.W. the Picky Eater
Marc Tolon Brown
Age: 4-8 years
Growing Vegetable Soup
Lois Ehlert
Age: 4-8 years
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Marjorie Priceman
Age: 4-8 years
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato
Lauren Child
Age: 4-8 years
Little Whistle’s Dinner Party
Cynthia Rylant
Age: 3-7 years |
Never Take a Pig Out to Lunch and Other Poems
Nadine Bernard Westcott
Age: 4-8 years
Oliver’s Fruit Salad
Vivian French
Age: 4-8 years
Oliver’s Milk Shake
Vivian French
Age: 4-8 years
Oliver’s Vegetables
Vivian French
Age: 4-8 years
Peanut Butter, Apple Butter, Cinnamon Toast: Food Riddles for You to Guess
Argentina Palacios.
Age: 4-8 years
Pete’s a Pizza
William Steig
Age: 4-8 years
Scrambled Egg Super!
Dr. Seuss
Age: 3-7 years
Stone Soup:
Marcia Brown
Age: 4-8 years
Sweet Dream Pie
Audrey Woods
Age: 4-8 years
Sweet Potato Pie
Anne F. Rockwell
Age: 4-8 years
This is the Bread I Baked for Ned
Crescent Dragonwagon and Isadore Selzer
Age: 4-8 years
Today is Monday
Eric Carle
Age: 4-8 years
Too Many Tamales
Gary Soto
Age: 4-8 years
Tops and Bottoms
Janet Stevens
Age: 4-8 years |
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