See What We Eat!: A First Book of Healthy Eating
See What We Eat!: A First Book of Healthy Eating
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Kids Can Press
Just the Series: Exploring Our Community   

Series and Publisher: Exploring Our Community   

Annotation: Follows five friends as they learn about balanced eating while they visit a farm.
Genre: [Cookbooks]
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #151422
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Copyright Date: 2017
Edition Date: 2017 Release Date: 09/05/17
Pages: 32 pages
ISBN: 1-7713-8618-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-7713-8618-0
Dewey: 641.3
Dimensions: 23 x 26 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Ritchie's group of friends from Look Where We Live! and Follow That Map! (2015, 2009) this time take a trip to Yulee's aunt's farm to see where food comes from and collect the ingredients for an apple crisp for the community potluck dinner.In the van, the kids learn about the food groups and why it's important to eat a variety of foods from each group. Once they reach the farm, Aunt Sara gives the kids a tour, and this is how Ritchie painlessly introduces readers to grains, a rainbow of vegetables, the protein packed in eggs, the products that come from cow and goat milk, and how to tell when apples are ready to be picked. The kids then refuel with a nutritious snack and drive to the store, along the way learning how foods that aren't grown locally get to the market. Once they have their ingredients, it's off to Pedro's house to cook with his dad. Yulee and Pedro compost the peels. A final spread shows the kids arriving at the harvest dinner with their dessert. The five are already a diverse group, but Ritchie consciously extends it with this scene, rounding out the community with the elderly, a person in a wheelchair, and a man in a turban, among others. A solid nutritional primer that is sure to get mouths watering for healthy food…and apple crisp. (recipe, glossary) (Informational picture book. 4-8)

School Library Journal (Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2017)

PreS-Gr 1-A diverse group of young friends (Yulee, Nick, Sally, Pedro, and Martin) go on an outing in search of ingredients with which to make an apple crisp to bring to the Harvest Festival at their community center. They travel to the apple orchard, where they meet Yulee's aunt Sara, who is a farmer. Aunt Sara teaches the children about all of the food on her farm, including grains, vegetables, chickens and eggs, cows and dairy, and, finally, apples. Afterward, the children stop at a grocery store to collect the rest of the items they need for their apple crisp (oats, brown sugar, nutmeg, etc.). The kids then follow the recipe directions and bake the dessert, compost the apple peels, and go to the Harvest Festival. Each section describes a different kind of food and where it is found; bold text at the bottom of the page provides more detailed health information and questions for readers. Back matter contains an easy-to-make apple crisp recipe and a glossary, and there is a table of contents in the beginning. VERDICT Primary grade teachers and parents will appreciate this positive story of the origin of food. Recommended purchase for elementary libraries.Kate Olson, Bangor School District, WI

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School Library Journal (Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2017)
Reading Level: 2.0
Interest Level: 1-4
Lexile: AD650L

Yulee and her four friends  Nick, Pedro, Sally and Martin  are taking a trip to her aunts farm to pick apples and make an apple crisp for a potluck harvest dinner. Yum! But first, Aunt Sara gives the friends a tour of the whole farm, where they learn what it means to eat balanced meals, why eating local food matters and all that goes into getting food from farm to table. Who knew there was so much to learn about what we eat? It makes everything taste better!

Award-winning author and illustrator Scot Ritchie uses accessible and entertaining language and familiar characters from his other books to encourage young children to make healthy choices about what they eat. Each stop on the farm tour introduces a basic food group: the field of wheat and oats for grains, the garden for vegetables, the henhouse for protein, the barn for dairy and the orchard for fruit. Ritchies cheerful, busy illustrations invite children to look closer at the details. This is a terrific book for a science or health lesson to broaden young childrens understanding of healthy eating and why local food matters. The potluck dinner includes a multicultural group of neighbors and provides opportunities for discussions about community involvement. There is an apple crisp recipe at the end of the story. Also provided are a table of contents and glossary.


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