What the World Eats
by Faith D’ Aluisio and photographs by Peter Menzel
This nonfiction book is about 25 families in 21 countries and 525 meals that they eat. Each little chapter is about one family and tells you the country that they live in. Each family also has a photograph with a week’s worth of the groceries that they eat and of the area they live in. The author also included a few American families to see how their diets differed from one another. Each chapter lists the different groceries for the family and how much it would cost to buy them in their country and in U.S. dollars. There is also a little story about the families and information about the country and city that they live in. Throughout the book there are also pages of other facts, such as the price of a Big Mac and which countries have a McDonalds. It is interesting to see what is in common with most of the families that live in cities. Can you find a drink that they all seem to enjoy?
by Faith D’ Aluisio and photographs by Peter Menzel
This nonfiction book is about 25 families in 21 countries and 525 meals that they eat. Each little chapter is about one family and tells you the country that they live in. Each family also has a photograph with a week’s worth of the groceries that they eat and of the area they live in. The author also included a few American families to see how their diets differed from one another. Each chapter lists the different groceries for the family and how much it would cost to buy them in their country and in U.S. dollars. There is also a little story about the families and information about the country and city that they live in. Throughout the book there are also pages of other facts, such as the price of a Big Mac and which countries have a McDonalds. It is interesting to see what is in common with most of the families that live in cities. Can you find a drink that they all seem to enjoy?
Just Grace and the Snack Attack
by Charise Mericle Harper
One of the students in Grace’s class makes fun of the food another student is eating, and so Miss Lois, their teacher, decides to teach the students about different kinds of food that people from other countries eat instead of the insides of a frog lessons that she was going to teach. This makes Grace very excited, as she was not looking forward to learning about the insides of a frog. The students are to write about different snacks that they eat and anything that they find out about foods that people eat in other countries. The next Monday, the class will get to have a snack party where the students will bring unusual or different snacks. Miss Lois even makes a list of snacks that cannot be brought to the party. Grace likes a lot of different foods from all over the world such as sushi (Japan), bulgogi (Korea), moo shoo (China), pad thai (Thailand), and paneer butter masala (India), and her mother decides that they will go to eat a new food at a restaurant that had not been to before. Then Grace goes to visit her friend Augustine Dupre who lives in their building. Augustine is a flight attendant who goes to France a lot, and she gives Grace a “zine.” A “zine” is little comic made from a piece of paper folded into eight pages. Grace loves her present and cannot wait to create her own “zine.” Grace decides that she wants to do her report on different kinds of potato chips from around the world, after Augustine gives her a bag of French chicken-flavored potato chips. While doing research for her report, Grace finds out that there are beef jerky flavored chips in South Africa, ketchup flavored chips in Canada, ham and mustard flavored chips in England, and seaweed and salt flavored chips in Japan. Grace is upset, though, that her dad helped her friend Mimi with her report, but he does not seem even a little interested in helping Grace with hers. This makes Grace feel like a bad friend for feeling jealous of Mimi. Then Mimi walks to school without her, and Grace becomes mad. Will Mimi figure out how upset Grace is and help her feel better? Will the report on potato chips turn out well, even if Grace does not get any help? What interesting foods will the other students bring on Monday? Will Grace’s dad surprise her with any help that she is not suspecting?
by Charise Mericle Harper
One of the students in Grace’s class makes fun of the food another student is eating, and so Miss Lois, their teacher, decides to teach the students about different kinds of food that people from other countries eat instead of the insides of a frog lessons that she was going to teach. This makes Grace very excited, as she was not looking forward to learning about the insides of a frog. The students are to write about different snacks that they eat and anything that they find out about foods that people eat in other countries. The next Monday, the class will get to have a snack party where the students will bring unusual or different snacks. Miss Lois even makes a list of snacks that cannot be brought to the party. Grace likes a lot of different foods from all over the world such as sushi (Japan), bulgogi (Korea), moo shoo (China), pad thai (Thailand), and paneer butter masala (India), and her mother decides that they will go to eat a new food at a restaurant that had not been to before. Then Grace goes to visit her friend Augustine Dupre who lives in their building. Augustine is a flight attendant who goes to France a lot, and she gives Grace a “zine.” A “zine” is little comic made from a piece of paper folded into eight pages. Grace loves her present and cannot wait to create her own “zine.” Grace decides that she wants to do her report on different kinds of potato chips from around the world, after Augustine gives her a bag of French chicken-flavored potato chips. While doing research for her report, Grace finds out that there are beef jerky flavored chips in South Africa, ketchup flavored chips in Canada, ham and mustard flavored chips in England, and seaweed and salt flavored chips in Japan. Grace is upset, though, that her dad helped her friend Mimi with her report, but he does not seem even a little interested in helping Grace with hers. This makes Grace feel like a bad friend for feeling jealous of Mimi. Then Mimi walks to school without her, and Grace becomes mad. Will Mimi figure out how upset Grace is and help her feel better? Will the report on potato chips turn out well, even if Grace does not get any help? What interesting foods will the other students bring on Monday? Will Grace’s dad surprise her with any help that she is not suspecting?
Mary Clare Likes to Share
by Joy Hulme and illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell
Whenever Mary Clare eats something, she likes to share it with others. Whenever she climbs a tree with Lee, she picks a pear and shares it with him by cutting it into two pieces. At school, she splits a muffin into three pieces to share it with her two friends. When three of her friends come to visit, she cuts a cookie into four pieces so that everyone can have a bite. As the book goes on, she breaks a pie, orange, watermelon, pizza, with each food getting cut into more pieces (five, six, seven, and eight). What event will have Mary Clare sharing ten whole pieces with her friends and family? Will she be able to share it evenly with everyone?
by Joy Hulme and illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell
Whenever Mary Clare eats something, she likes to share it with others. Whenever she climbs a tree with Lee, she picks a pear and shares it with him by cutting it into two pieces. At school, she splits a muffin into three pieces to share it with her two friends. When three of her friends come to visit, she cuts a cookie into four pieces so that everyone can have a bite. As the book goes on, she breaks a pie, orange, watermelon, pizza, with each food getting cut into more pieces (five, six, seven, and eight). What event will have Mary Clare sharing ten whole pieces with her friends and family? Will she be able to share it evenly with everyone?
The Sandwich Swap
by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdulliah with Kelly DiPuchhio and illustrated by Tricia Tusa
Salma and Lily are best friends at school, and they have a lot of fun drawing, swinging, jumping, and eating together. At lunch, Lily eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day, and Salma eats a hummus and pita sandwich every day. Both Lily and Salma feel sorry for one another that they have to eat the “weird and yucky” sandwiches every day, but they never say this out loud to one another. Then one day, Lily tells Salma that her sandwich looks yucky. Salma’s feelings are hurt, and she tells Lily that her sandwich looks and smells yucky, too. Both of the girls are mad and do not do anything together that day. The next day, the girls do not sit next to each other at lunch. The other students hear about what happened and take sides. Then the students start calling each other names, until someone yells “Food fight!” After the food fight, Lily and Salma feel ashamed at what happened. Will the girls be able to talk to each other about their feelings? Will they decide to try something new and find out what the other one likes about their sandwich? Will Lily and Salma be able to help the other students try new things, too?
by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdulliah with Kelly DiPuchhio and illustrated by Tricia Tusa
Salma and Lily are best friends at school, and they have a lot of fun drawing, swinging, jumping, and eating together. At lunch, Lily eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day, and Salma eats a hummus and pita sandwich every day. Both Lily and Salma feel sorry for one another that they have to eat the “weird and yucky” sandwiches every day, but they never say this out loud to one another. Then one day, Lily tells Salma that her sandwich looks yucky. Salma’s feelings are hurt, and she tells Lily that her sandwich looks and smells yucky, too. Both of the girls are mad and do not do anything together that day. The next day, the girls do not sit next to each other at lunch. The other students hear about what happened and take sides. Then the students start calling each other names, until someone yells “Food fight!” After the food fight, Lily and Salma feel ashamed at what happened. Will the girls be able to talk to each other about their feelings? Will they decide to try something new and find out what the other one likes about their sandwich? Will Lily and Salma be able to help the other students try new things, too?
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