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Preschool: Picture Books
Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.
From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste.
Max makes an earthworm cake for Grandma's birthday and helps Ruby with her angel surprise cake. At the store, the grocer can't read all of the shopping list, until Max solves the problem by drawing a picture.
To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text demonstrate a variety of ways to eat different foods.
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.
An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.
Sam-I-Am tries to persuade his friend to try green eggs and ham.
A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
"Making cool cookies and eating them, too, is something that very good dinosaurs do. Inside you'll find cookies and sweet smells galore. So scratch, sniff, and eat up, little dinosaur!"
Describes how a dinosaur eats, with no rude noises and while sitting very still.
A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.
Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake.
Animals come from far and wide to study at the world-famous dessert school of Chef George.
A very small mouse finds a very big chocolate chip, raspberry cream cupcake and must ask for help from his animal friends to get it home--all of whom agree in exchange for a little nibble.
Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.
A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch composed of colorful foods.
Introduces Spanish and English vocabulary words for the Maisy the mouse's favorite foods.
On market day, a farm family experiences all the fun and excitement of going to and from the farmers' market.
A hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
After a day of making and selling cookies, Mr. Baker gets to enjoy one himself. Includes cookie recipe.
A little old lady's attempts to have pancakes for breakfast are hindered by a scarcity of supplies and the participation of her pets.
By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.
A baking poodle helps.
A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.
Photographs of vegetables and rhyming text celebrate vegetables in all their colorful and tasty variety.
Baking cookies teaches us many lessons about life and love. Includes a recipe for sugar cookies.
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
By order of the Duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.
Owl wishes he had some ice cream like his friends, and so Panda and Sheep find a way to share.